Appropriate vs Proprietary - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between appropriate and proprietary

is that appropriate is (obsolete) set apart for a particular use or person; reserved while proprietary is of or relating to property or ownership, as proprietary rights .

As a verb appropriate

is (archaic) to make suitable; to suit.

As a noun proprietary is

a proprietor or owner.

appropriate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.

* (Beilby Porteus)

in its strict and appropriate meaning

* (Edward Stillingfleet)

appropriate acts of divine worship

* (John Locke)

It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.

Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.

While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.

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, date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets. }}

Synonyms

* (suited for) apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable

Antonyms

* (all senses) inappropriate

Derived terms

* appropriateness

Verb

(appropriat)

(archaic) To make suitable; to suit.

(William Paley)

To take to oneself in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right.

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To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; with to'' or ''for .

* 2012 , The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, Put armed police in every school, NRA urges

“I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.

(transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.

(Blackstone)

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proprietary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to property or ownership, as proprietary rights .

Of or relating to the quality of being an owner, as the proprietary class .

Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.

The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.

Privately owned, as a proprietary lake .

(of a, person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.

Noun

(proprietaries)

A proprietor or owner.

(Fuller)

A body of proprietors, taken collectively.

A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.