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Accommodation vs Property - What's the difference?

accommodation | property |

As nouns the difference between accommodation and property

is that accommodation is (senseid) lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc while property is something that is owned.

As a verb property is

(obsolete) to invest with properties, or qualities.

accommodation

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

  • (senseid) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
  • (label) Adaptation or adjustment.
  • # The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
  • #* (rfdate), Sir (1609-1676)
  • The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.
  • # A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
  • # The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
  • # The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
  • (label) Adaptation or adjustment.
  • # Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
  • # Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
  • #* (rfdate), (1800-1859)
  • To come to terms of accommodation .
  • # (label) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
  • #* (rfdate), (William Paley) (1743-1805)
  • Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations .
  • # A loan of money.
  • # An accommodation bill or note.
  • # An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
  • The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
  • Derived terms

    : The definitions should be entered into dedicated entries for the terms defined. * accommodation bill, or note, (Commerce): a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit * accommodation coach, or train: one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations * accommodation ladder, (Nautical): a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats * holiday accommodation

    property

    English

    Alternative forms

    * propretie

    Noun

  • Something that is owned.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}
  • A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
  • Real estate; the business of selling houses.
  • The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
  • An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance , passage=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.}}
  • An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
  • , title= The Adaptable Gas Turbine , passage=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.}}
  • (label) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
  • An object used in a dramatic production.
  • (label) Propriety; correctness.
  • (Camden)

    Synonyms

    * (something owned) belongings, owndom, possession * (piece of real estate) land, parcel * (attribute or abstract quality of an object) attribute, feature, owndom * (object used in a dramatic production) prop * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * abandoned property * accidental property * bound property * chemical property * country property * essential property * hot property * intellectual property * lost property * man of property * mechanical property * metaproperty * mislaid property * personal property * physical property * private property * prop * propertied * property file * property ladder * property law * property line * property man * property master * property owner * property porn * property rights * property tax * propertyless * public property * qualified property * real property

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
  • * Shakespeare
  • They have here propertied me.

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