Poverty vs Property - What's the difference?
poverty | property |
The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
Something that is owned.
*{{quote-book, year=1927, author=
, chapter=4, title= 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=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, title= (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.
(obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.
(obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between poverty and property
is that poverty is the quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need while property is something that is owned.As a verb property is
to invest with properties, or qualities.poverty
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=America’s poverty' line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the '''poverty''' barrier. But '''poverty'''’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own ' poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* See alsoproperty
English
Alternative forms
* propretieNoun
F. E. Penny
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.}}
Philip J. Bushnell
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.}}
Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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.}}
- (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 alsoDerived 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 propertyVerb
- (Shakespeare)
- They have here propertied me.