Property vs. Properly: What's the Difference?
Property and Properly Definitions
Property
Something owned; a possession.
Properly
Characterized by appropriateness or suitability; fitting
The proper knife for cutting bread.
Not a proper moment for a joke.
Property
A piece of real estate
Has a swimming pool on the property.
Properly
Called for by rules or conventions; correct
The proper form for a business letter.
Property
Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title
Properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
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Properly
Strictly following rules or conventions, especially in social behavior; seemly
A proper lady.
A proper gentleman.
Property
Something tangible or intangible, such as a claim or a right, in which a person has a legally cognizable, compensable interest.
Properly
Belonging to one; own
Restored to his proper shape by the magician.
Property
Possessions considered as a group
Moved with all his property.
Properly
Characteristically belonging to the being or thing in question; peculiar
An optical effect proper to fluids.
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Property
A theatrical prop.
Properly
Being within the strictly limited sense, as of a term designating something
The town proper, excluding the suburbs.
Property
An attribute, characteristic, or quality
A compound with anti-inflammatory properties.
Properly
(Ecclesiastical) For use in the liturgy of a particular feast or season of the year.
Property
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.).
Properly
(Mathematics) Of or relating to a subset of a given set when the set has at least one element not in the subset.
Property
A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
There is a large house on the property.
Properly
Worthy of the name; true
Wanted a proper dinner, not just a snack.
Property
(British) Real estate; the business of selling houses.
He works in property as a housing consultant.
Properly
Out-and-out; thorough
A proper whipping.
Property
The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
Properly
Thoroughly
Beat the eggs good and proper.
Property
An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
Charm is his most endearing property.
Properly
The portion of the liturgy that varies according to the particular feast or season of the year.
Property
An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.
Properly
In a proper manner, appropriately, suitably; correctly, justifiably
Property
(computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class.
You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".
Properly
(obsolete) individually; in one's own manner.
Property
A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.
Properly
(colloquial) Entirely; extremely; thoroughly.
I was properly tired after that party.
Property
(US) 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.
Properly
In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.
Property
A produced stage play, movie, or the like.
Properly
Individually; after one's own manner.
Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly.
Property
(obsolete) Propriety; correctness.
Properly
In the right manner;
Please do your job properly!
Can't you carry me decent?
Property
(obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
Properly
With reason or justice
Property
(obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
Property
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.
Property is correctly a synonym for peculiar quality; but it is frequently used as coextensive with quality in general.
Property
An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which constitute excellence.
Property
The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title.
Here I disclaim all my paternal care,Propinquity and property of blood.
Shall man assume a property in man?
Property
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.
Property
All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.
I will draw a bill of properties.
Property
Propriety; correctness.
Property
To invest which properties, or qualities.
Property
To make a property of; to appropriate.
They have here propertied me.
Property
Any area set aside for a particular purpose;
Who owns this place?
The president was concerned about the property across from the White House
Property
Something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone;
That hat is my property
He is a man of property
Property
A basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class;
A study of the physical properties of atomic particles
Property
A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;
Self-confidence is not an endearing property
Property
Any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie;
Before every scene he ran down his checklist of props
