property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒp.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ti/
ipa: [ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ɾi]
enpr: prŏʹpərdē
Forms: form: properties
form: propretie
Etymology: From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietās (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Equivalent to proper + -ty. Doublet of propriety.
Senses: examples: text: Leave those books alone! They are my property.
text: Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.).
text: A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.
ref: 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
glosses: Something that is owned.
examples: text: There is a large house on the property.
text: He owns over ten properties in the country.
synonyms: land
parcel
glosses: A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
examples: text: He works in property as a housing consultant.
glosses: Real estate; the business of selling houses.
glosses: The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
examples: text: Charm is his most endearing property.
text: Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
ref: 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
glosses: An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
examples: text: Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.
text: Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
ref: 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:
glosses: An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
examples: text: You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that encapsulates an underlying variable.
examples: text: Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
synonyms: prop
glosses: A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
glosses: A script, book, screenplay, or the like that is on the market or has been bought for commercial production as a stage play, movie, or the like.
examples: text: Is the property in which you are playing currently on Broadway – is it a musical?
ref: 1961, Darren McGavin, quoted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onJF43xXG2o?t=1331
glosses: A script, book, screenplay, or the like that is on the market or has been bought for commercial production as a stage play, movie, or the like.
A produced stage play, movie, or the like.
examples: text: it is well knowne that I have the property to keepe counsaile
ref: 1625, William Camden, translated by Abraham Darcie/Darcy, Annales Or, The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth Late Queen of England:
glosses: Propriety; correctness.
Synonyms: sense: attribute or abstract quality of an object
word: characteristic
word: property
word: possession
word: belongings
word: owndom
word: aught
Hyponyms: word: Tangible:
word: tangible asset
word: capital
word: chattel
word: goods
word: livestock
word: money
word: real estate
word: wealth
word: Intangible:
word: intangible asset
word: intellectual property
word: Other cases:
word: booty
Derived terms: abandoned property
accidental property
antiproperty
Archimedean property
bioproperty
Bolzano-Weierstrass property
bound property
chemical property
Church-Rosser property
colligative property
community property
country property
disproperty
essential property
extensive property
generic property
greedy property
hippity hoppity get off my property
hot property
hyperproperty
identity property
immovable property
industrial property
intellectual property
intensive property
lost property
man of property
Markov property
mechanical property
metaproperty
mislaid property
movable property
nonproperty
personal property
personal property tax
physical property
private property
private property anarchism
private property anarchist
prop
propertarian
propertied
propertization
property bag
property file
property irregularity report
property ladder
property law
propertyless
property line
property man
property management
property market
property master
property owner
property porn
property register
property rights
property tax
property-theoretic
proptech
public property
qualified property
real property
real property tax
subproperty
superposition property
superproperty
topological property
universal property
Related terms: word: proper
word: proprietary
word: proprietor
word: acquisition
word: possess
word: possessor