Property
['prɒpətɪ] or ['prɑpɚti]
Definition
(noun.) any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; 'before every scene he ran down his checklist of props'.
(noun.) a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; 'a study of the physical properties of atomic particles'.
(noun.) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; 'self-confidence is not an endearing property'.
(noun.) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; 'that hat is my property'; 'he is a man of property';.
Editor: Seth--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.
(a.) An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which constitute excellence.
(a.) The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title.
(a.) That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property.
(a.) All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.
(a.) Propriety; correctness.
(v. t.) To invest which properties, or qualities.
(v. t.) To make a property of; to appropriate.
Checker: Rudolph
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Quality, attribute, peculiarity, characteristic, nature.[2]. Wealth, estate, goods, possessions, one's own.[3]. Ownership, exclusive right.
Typist: Susan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Quality, attribute, peculiarity, nature, characteristic, possessions, goods,wealth, estate, gear, resources, ownership,[See ATTRIBUTE]. \n.\,[Seeand_ESTATE]
Checker: Osbert
Definition
n. that which is proper to any person or thing: a quality which is always present: any quality: that which is one's own: an estate: right of possessing employing &c.: ownership: (Shak.) individuality: (pl.) articles required by actors in a play.—v.t. (Shak.) to invest with certain properties: to make a tool of appropriate.—adj. Prop′ertied possessed of property or possessions.—ns. Prop′erty-man -mas′ter one who has charge of the stage properties in a theatre; Prop′erty-room the room in which the stage properties of a theatre are kept; Prop′erty-tax a tax paid by persons possessed of property at the rate of so much per cent. on its value.—Movable or Personal property property that may attend the person of the owner movables; Private property that which belongs to an individual for his personal disposition and use—opp. to Public property; Real property lands tenements and hereditaments real estate; Qualified property the right a man has in reclaimed wild animals—also called Special property: such right as a bailee has in the chattel transferred to him by the bailment.
Typist: Remington
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you own vast property, denotes that you will be successful in affairs, and gain friendships. See Wealth.
Edited by Ahmed
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Any material thing having no particular value that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
Checker: Olga
Examples
- There--take away your property. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Till the Mounds is down and this business completed, you're accountable for all the property, recollect. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Had they made any considerable part of their property, such a resolution could never have been agreed to. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A wife, for example, had no control over her own property; she was in her husband's hands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was to protect private property that the Revolution began. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What made you suppose me a man of property? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The acquisition of valuable and extensive property, therefore, necessarily requires the establishment of civil government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Property must be stable, and must be fixed by general rules. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Your lives and property are sacred and inviolable amongst one another until the end of time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Was there any chance of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian property? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And this may be received as a convincing argument for our preceding doctrine with regard to property and justice. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- At any rate, he has property there, which has very much increased in value since Milton has become such a large manufacturing town. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They wanted to intensify and universalize property. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If I had never come into the property, I shouldn't have minded. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The open struggle of the private property owner against the aggressions of the Prince begins in England far back in the twelfth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No one can carry around with him a museum of all the things whose properties will assist the conduct of thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This was a great advance, as a more accurate division of time was had by improving the isochronous properties of the vibrating escapement. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mr Venus involuntarily smoothed his countenance, and looked at his hand, as if to see whether any of its speaking properties came off. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Magnetic Properties of an Electric Current. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It owned great properties and often hoarded huge treasures. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The production of coal gas, and the development of its properties at different stages of distillation, may be readily shown by means of a common tobacco pipe. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In 1639 Galileo, then old and blind, dictated to his son one of his books in which he discussed the isochronal properties of oscillating bodies, and their adaptation as time measures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- That this solution has bleaching properties is shown by the fact that a colored cloth dipped into it loses its color, and unbleached fabrics immersed in it are whitened. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The cause of this phaenomenon must evidently lie in the different properties of space and time. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Perhaps it will not surprise us now to learn that a magnet in motion has electric properties and is, in fact, able to produce a current within a wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Senefelder had advanced thus far, he had not yet made application of the chemical properties of ink and water, which constitute the distinguishing characteristics of Lithography. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I am a part of this scene; each and all its properties are a part of me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- For the purpose of making the cast finely ground fresh plaster of Paris is needed; if of long standing, the same will lose its desirable properties. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- An immense building of glass, with all the properties and stage-settings of a regular theatre, is required. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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