property
Other forms: properties
What you own or have, like a car or clothes, is your property. The qualities that a thing has are its properties. Aloe is a plant with medicinal properties — it soothes burns.
If you see a sign that says, "Private property, keep off," the land-owner does not want you to go on his or her land. If you go on it anyway, you're trespassing. You'll often hear people talking about property values. When they say this, they really just mean how much the land they own is worth. People like to talk about property values when they are on the rise. When they are falling, not so much.
Definitions of property
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something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone“that hat is my property”“he is a man of property”synonyms: belongings, holdingtypes:hereditamentany property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inheritedintellectual propertyintangible property that is the result of creativity (such as patents or trademarks or copyrights)community propertyproperty and income belonging jointly to a married couplepersonal estate, personal property, personalty, private propertymovable property (as distinguished from real estate)thingsany movable possession (especially articles of clothing)commonageproperty held in commonlandholdinga holding in the form of landsalvageproperty or goods saved from damage or destructionshareholdinga holding in the form of shares of corporationstrade-inan item of property that is given in part payment for a new onepublic propertyproperty owned by a governmentwealthproperty that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange valueestateeverything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilitiesheirloom(law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritancetrustsomething (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)asseta valuable item that someone ownschattel, movable, personal chattelpersonal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)effects, personal effectsproperty of a personal character that is portable but not used in businessacres, demesne, estate, land, landed estateextensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own uselandthe land on which real estate is locatedmoneywealth reckoned in terms of moneygross estatethe total valuation of the estate's assets at the time of the person's deathnet estatethe estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate; the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes)estate for life, life estate(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding itjointure, legal jointure(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a doweractive trusta trust in which the trustee must perform certain dutiesblind trusta trust that enables a person to avoid possible conflict of interest by transferring assets to a fiduciary; the person establishing the trust gives up the right to information about the assetspassive trusta trust in which the trustee performs no active dutiescharitable trust, public trusta trust created for charitable or religious or educational or scientific purposesClifford trust, grantor trusta trust established to shift the income to someone who is taxed at a lower rate than the grantor for a period of 10 years or moreimplied trusta trust inferred by operation of lawdirect trust, express trusta trust created by the free and deliberate act of the parties involved (usually on the basis of written documentation)discretionary trusta trust that gives the trustee discretion to pay the beneficiary as much of the trust income as the trustee believes appropriatespendthrift trusta trust created to maintain a beneficiary but to be secure against the beneficiary's improvidencetestamentary trusta trust that is created under a will and that becomes active after the grantor diesTotten trust, savings account trust, savings bank trust, trust account, trustee accounta savings account deposited by someone who makes themselves the trustee for a beneficiary and who controls it during their lifetime; afterward the balance is payable to the previously named beneficiaryvoting trustan agreement whereby persons owning stock with voting powers retain ownership while transferring the voting rights to the trusteestype of:possessionanything owned or possessed
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any area set aside for a particular purpose“the president was concerned about the property across from the White House”synonyms: placetypes:boatyarda place where boats are built or maintained or storedsanctuarya consecrated place where sacred objects are keptcolonya place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentratedhatcherya place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs)customsthe place at an airport or port where officials screen incoming travelers and goodsholy of holies, sanctum sanctorum(Judaism) sanctuary comprised of the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle in the temple of Solomon where the Ark of the Covenant was keptTabernacle(Judaism) a portable sanctuary in which the Jews carried the Ark of the Covenant on their exoduscapitala center that is associated more than any other with some activity or producttype of:geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical regiona demarcated area of the Earth
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any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or moviesynonyms: proptypes:custard piea prop consisting of an open pie filled with real or artificial custard; thrown in slapstick comediestype of:
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a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class“a study of the physical properties of atomic particles”types:actinismthe property of radiation that enables it to produce photochemical effectsisotropy, symmetry(physics) the property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directionsanisotropythe property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directionscharacteristic, device characteristicany measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditionsconnectivitythe property of being connected or the degree to which something has connectionsduality, wave-particle duality(physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theoryagehow long something has existedcomposition, constitution, make-up, makeup, physical compositionthe way in which someone or something is composeddispositiona natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thingopticsoptical propertiesvisual propertyan attribute of visionsound propertyan attribute of soundtaste propertya property appreciated via the sense of tastesaltinessthe property of containing salt (as a compound or in solution)bodily propertyan attribute of the bodyphysical propertyany property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactionschemical propertya property used to characterize materials in reactions that change their identitysustainabilitythe property of being sustainablestrengththe property of being physically or mentally strongconcentrationthe strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volumeweaknessthe property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or straintemporal propertya property relating to timeviability(of living things) the state of being capable of normal growth and developmentmagnitudethe property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)sizethe property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)hydrophobicitythe property of being water-repellent; tending to repel and not absorb wateranalyticitythe property of being analyticcompositenessthe property of being a composite numberprimalitythe property of being a prime numberselectivitythe property of being selectivevascularitythe property being vascularextensionthe ability to raise the working leg high in the airinsolubility, unsolvabilitythe property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it impossible to solvegaseousnesshaving the consistency of a gashereditary pattern, inheritance(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parentschronological ageage measured by the time (years and months) that something or someone has existedbone agea person's age measured by matching their bone development (as shown by X rays) with bone development of an average person of known chronological agedevelopmental agea measure of a child's development (in body size or motor skill or psychological function) expressed in terms of age normsfertilization age, fetal age, gestational agethe age of an embryo counting from the time of fertilizationmental agethe level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence testoldnessthe quality of being old; the opposite of newnessnewnessthe quality of being new; the opposite of oldnessoldnessthe opposite of youngnessyoungnessthe opposite of oldnessdrapethe manner in which fabric hangs or fallsfitthe manner in which something fitsforma particular mode in which something is manifestedlife style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendia manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudessetupthe way something is organized or arrangedwisea way of doing or beingstructurethe manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its partsphenotypewhat an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environmentgrain, texturethe physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)thicknessresistance to flowthinnessa consistency of low viscosityhardnessthe property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scalesoftnessthe property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or moldedbreakablenessthe consistency of something that breaks under pressureunbreakablenessa consistency of something that does not break under pressuremordacitya disposition to bitingpredispositiona disposition in advance to react in a particular waypronenessbeing disposed to do somethingseparatisma disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatistsinclination, tendencya characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effecttouchthe feel of mechanical actiontexturethe feel of a surface or a fabrictexturethe characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile qualitydullnessa lack of visual brightnesssoftnessa visual property that is subdued and free from brilliance or glarecolor, coloring, colour, colouringa visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflectachromaticity, achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessnessthe visual property of being without chromatic colorcolor propertyan attribute of colorfetidness, foulness, malodorousness, rankness, stinkinessthe attribute of having a strong offensive smellmuskinesshaving the olfactory properties of musksoundthe particular auditory effect produced by a given causeharmonyan agreeable sound propertydissonancedisagreeable soundspitchthe property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibrationregistration(music) the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stopsquality, timber, timbre, tone(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)softnessa sound property that is free from loudness or stridencyrhythmicitythe rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of musicrancidnessthe property of being rancidbrackishnessthe quality of being salty, as the saltiness of waterbipedalismthe bodily attribute of being bipedal; having two feetphysiologyprocesses and functions of an organismphysiological propertya property having to do with the functioning of the bodyvolatilitythe property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vaporabsorption factor, absorptivity(physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the bodydrippinessthe physical property of being soft and drippytemperaturethe degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)H, enthalpy, heat content, total heat(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressureS, entropy, randomness(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical workperceptibilitythe property of being perceptible by the mind or the sensesbrightness, brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousnessthe quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting lightimperceptibilitythe property of being imperceptible by the mind or the sensesreluctivity(physics) the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field in itsensitiveness, sensitivitythe ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differenceselasticity, snapthe tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressedmalleability, plasticitythe property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breakinginelasticitythe lack of elasticityunmalleabilitya lack of malleabilitymassthe property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational fieldweightthe vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravitymomentumthe product of a body's mass and its velocitygood parta place of especial strengthsturdinessthe property of something that is strongly builtendurancethe power to withstand hardship or stressinvulnerabilitythe property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally)hydrogen ion concentrationthe number of moles of hydrogen ions per cubic decimetermolal concentration, molalityconcentration measured by the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solventM, molar concentration, molarityconcentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solutionadynamialack of strength or vigor (especially from illness)faintnessthe property of being without strengthinsubstantialitylack of solid substance and strengthattenuationthe property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or densityenervationlack of vitalityfatigabilitysusceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strengthvulnerabilitysusceptibility to injury or attackfugacitythe tendency of a gas to expand or escapedimensionalitythe spatial property of having dimensionsdirectionalitythe property of being directional or maintaining a directionconfiguration, conformation, contour, form, shapeany spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)balance, correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or planeobliquenessthe property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angleabsolute magnitude(astronomy) the magnitude that a star would have if it were viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs (32.62 light years) from the earthdimensionthe magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)grindthe grade of particle fineness to which a substance is grounddegreethe seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)depthdegree of psychological or intellectual profundityextra largea garment size for a very large personlargea garment size for a large personnumbera clothing measurement8vo, eightvo, octavothe size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leavesoutsizean unusual garment size (especially one that is very large)petitea garment size for short or slender women4to, quartothe size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leavesregulara garment size for persons of average height and weightsmalla garment size for a small personstouta garment size for a large or heavy persontalla garment size for a tall personhighnessa high degree (of amount or force etc.)higha lofty level or position or degreelowa low level or position or degreelownessa low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.)extremethe furthest or highest degree of somethingamplitudegreatness of magnitudeamplitude levelthe level on a scale of amplitudemultiplicitythe property of being multipletriplicitythe property of being triplesizethe physical magnitude of something (how big it is)sizea large magnitudemuchnessgreatness of quantity or measure or extentintensity, intensity level, strengththe amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)amountthe relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterionSPF, sun protection factorthe degree to which a sunscreen protects the skin from the direct rays of the sunextentthe distance or area or volume over which something extendslengththe linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in placeresponsethe manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signalskaryotypethe appearance of the chromosomal makeup of a somatic cell in an individual or species (including the number and arrangement and size and structure of the chromosomes)tanga pungent and distinctive odoracousticsthe characteristics or qualities that determine how sound is heard in an enclosed spacetype of:attributean abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
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a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished“self-confidence is not an endearing property”types:character, lineament, qualitya characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of somethingfeature, feature of speech(linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kindsex character, sex characteristic, sexual characteristicthose characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the othertexturethe essential quality of somethinginvarianta feature (quantity or property or function) that remains unchanged when a particular transformation is applied to itattracter, attraction, attractive feature, attractor, magneta characteristic that provides pleasure and attractsbadgeany feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank)contoura feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structureexternaloutward featuressafety featurefeature of an artifact that is added to insure a user's safetytype of:concept, conception, constructan abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
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