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Property
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- 1 Something that is owned. countable, uncountable
"Leave those books alone! They are my property."
- 2 any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie wordnet
- 3 A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land. countable, uncountable
"There is a large house on the property."
- 4 a basic or essential property shared by all members of a class wordnet
- 5 Real estate; the business of selling houses. British, countable, uncountable
"He works in property as a housing consultant."
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- 6 a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished wordnet
- 7 The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing. countable, uncountable
- 8 any area set aside for a particular purpose wordnet
- 9 An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept. countable, uncountable
"Charm is his most endearing property."
- 10 something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone wordnet
- 11 An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects. countable, uncountable
"Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density."
- 12 An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that encapsulates an underlying variable. countable, uncountable
"You need to set the debugging property to "verbose"."
- 13 A prop, an object used in a dramatic production. countable, plural-normally, uncountable
"Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking."
- 14 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. US, countable, uncountable
- 15 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. US, broadly, countable, rare, uncountable
"Is the property in which you are playing currently on Broadway – is it a musical?"
- 16 Propriety; correctness. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"it is well knowne that I have the property to keepe counsaile"
- 1 To invest with properties, or qualities. obsolete
"His voyce was propertied As all the tuned Spheres, and that to Friends"
- 2 To make a property of; to appropriate. obsolete
"Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back: I am too high-born to be propertied, To be a secondary at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument, To any sovereign state throughout the world."
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.
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.
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