property
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
theater
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.
Base: proper
Affixes: -ty
Inflected forms:
form: properties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: propretie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that is owned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Leave those books alone! They are my property.
Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.).
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.
gloss: A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is a large house on the property.
He owns over ten properties in the country.
gloss: Real estate; the business of selling houses.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: He works in property as a housing consultant.
gloss: The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Charm is his most endearing property.
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.
gloss: An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.
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.
gloss: An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that encapsulates an underlying variable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".
gloss: A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
countable
rare
uncountable
examples: Is the property in which you are playing currently on Broadway – is it a musical?
gloss: Propriety; correctness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: it is well knowne that I have the property to keepe counsaile
Synonyms: characteristic
aught
belongings
owndom
possession
property
propriety
Related words: proper
proprietary
proprietor
acquisition
possess
possessor
Derived words: 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 right
property rights
property tax
property-theoretic
proptech
public property
qualified property
real property
real property tax
subproperty
superposition property
superproperty
topological property
universal property
Translations:
lang: Western Apache
word: bíniʼ
lang: Arabic
word: مِلْكِيَّة
roman: milkiyya
lang: Armenian
word: անշարժ գույք
roman: anšarž guykʻ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mülk
lang: Azerbaijani
word: daşınmaz əmlak
lang: Belarusian
word: нерухо́масць
roman: njeruxómascʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: имот
roman: imot
lang: Catalan
word: propietat
lang: Catalan
word: immoble
lang: Catalan
word: finca
lang: Catalan
word: hisenda
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 產業 /产业
roman: chǎnyè
lang: Czech
word: nemovitost
lang: Danish
word: ejendom
lang: Esperanto
word: bieno
lang: Estonian
word: kinnisvara
lang: Faroese
word: ogn
lang: Finnish
word: kiinteistö
lang: Finnish
word: tontti
lang: Finnish
word: määräala
lang: Finnish
word: tila
lang: French
word: propriété
lang: Galician
word: propiedade
lang: German
word: Anwesen
lang: German
word: Grundbesitz
lang: German
word: Grundstück
lang: Greek
word: κτήμα
roman: ktíma
lang: Hebrew
word: נכס
roman: nékhes
lang: Hiligaynon
word: abír
lang: Hindi
word: संपत्ति
roman: sampatti
lang: Hindi
word: जायदाद
roman: jāydād
lang: Hungarian
word: ingatlan
lang: Hungarian
word: birtok
lang: Icelandic
word: landeign
lang: Icelandic
word: fasteign
lang: Interlingua
word: immobile
lang: Irish
word: réadmhaoin
lang: Irish
word: seilbh
lang: Italian
word: proprietà
lang: Italian
word: possesso
lang: Italian
word: beni immobili
lang: Japanese
word: 資産
roman: shisan
lang: Japanese
word: 所有地
roman: shoyū-chi
lang: Khmer
word: អចលវត្ថុ
roman: a’cha’la’ voattʰo’
lang: Korean
word: 부동산
roman: budongsan
lang: Korean
word: 재산
roman: jaesan
lang: Korean
word: 소유지
roman: soyuji
lang: Macedonian
word: имот
roman: imot
lang: Malagasy
word: fananana
lang: Māori
word: papanoho
lang: Norman
word: propriêté
lang: Norwegian
word: tomt
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: eiendom
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: eigedom
lang: Polish
word: posesja
lang: Polish
word: posiadłość
lang: Portuguese
word: propriedade
lang: Russian
word: недви́жимость
roman: nedvížimostʹ
lang: Russian
word: со́бственность
roman: sóbstvennostʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: има́ње
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: господа́рство
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: по́сјед
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: imánje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: gospodárstvo
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pósjed
lang: Sicilian
word: prupità fprupitati
lang: Sicilian
word: beni
lang: Spanish
word: propiedad
lang: Spanish
word: finca
lang: Spanish
word: bienes
lang: Spanish
word: posesión
lang: Spanish
word: heredad
lang: Spanish
word: predio
lang: Swedish
word: egendom
lang: Telugu
word: ఆస్తి
roman: āsti
lang: Thai
word: ที่ดิน
roman: tîi-din
lang: Turkish
word: mülk
lang: Turkish
word: emlak
lang: Ukrainian
word: нерухо́мість
roman: neruxómistʹ