Property definition
A specific piece of land or real estate.
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A thing or things owned; possessions collectively; esp., land or real estate owned.
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A theatrical prop.
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Any trait or attribute proper to a thing or, formerly, to a person; characteristic quality; peculiarity; specif., any of the principal characteristics of a substance, esp. as determined by the senses or by its effect on another substance.
The properties of a chemical compound.
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Something regarded as being possessed by, or at the disposal of, a person or group of persons.
Common property.
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(logic) A quality common to all members of a species or class.
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An attribute, characteristic, or quality.
A compound with anti-inflammatory properties.
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Something owned; a possession.
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A piece of real estate.
Has a swimming pool on the property.
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Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title.
Properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
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Something tangible or intangible, such as a claim or a right, in which a person has a legally cognizable, compensable interest.
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Possessions considered as a group.
Moved with all his property.
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(theater, film, tv) Any of the movable articles used as part of the setting or in a piece of stage business, except the costumes, backdrops, etc.
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The right to possess, use, and dispose of something; ownership.
Property in land.
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Something, as a piece of writing, in which copyright or other rights are held, specif., one acquired for production as a film.
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See personal property.
Community or state owned property that is not restricted to use by an individual or a select few, and over which the state or community has dominion and control.
Land, real estate.
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Property with physical form and extent.
A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
There is a large house on the property. Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.).
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(computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".
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(usually in the plural, theater) An object used in a dramatic production.
Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.
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(obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
verb
Property is something that is owned, whether it is goods, land or creative.
An example of property is a person's house.
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All of the rights of ownership, including the rights of possession, to enjoy, to use, and to dispose of a chattel or a piece of land.
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Property held jointly by two or or more persons, or property that belongs to all citizens. See also community property.
Property without tangible value, but that represents something of value, such as a stock certificate, which is just a piece of paper, but which indicates ownership of stock. Something of value.
Property that has no physical existence, such as stock options or goodwill.
Property having to do with patents or trademarks.
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
property
Plural:
propertiesOrigin of property
- Middle English from Old French propriete from Latin proprietās ownership (translation of Greek idiotēs) from proprius one's own per1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English /Anglo-Norman proprete, from Middle French propreté, from Old French propriete (modern propriété), itself, from Latin proprietas, from proprius 'own'.
From Wiktionary