propertynoun/ˈpɹɒp.ə.ti/

• 1

  Something that is owned.

  • 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.).
• 2

  A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.

  • There is a large house on the property.
  • He owns over ten properties in the country.
• 3

  Real estate; the business of selling houses.

  • He works in property as a housing consultant.
• 4

  The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.

• 5

  An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.

  • 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.
• 6

  An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.

  • 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.
• 7

  computingengineeringmathematicsAn editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that encapsulates an underlying variable.

  • You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".
• 8

  entertainmentlifestyletheaterA prop, an object used in a dramatic production.

  • Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.

propertyverb/ˈpɹɒp.ə.ti/

• 1

  obsoleteTo invest with properties, or qualities.

  • His voyce was propertied As all the tuned Spheres, and that to Friends
• 2

  obsoleteTo make a property of; to appropriate.

  • 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.