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Fortune vs Property - What's the difference?

fortune | property |

As nouns the difference between fortune and property

is that fortune is destiny, especially favorable while property is something that is owned.

As verbs the difference between fortune and property

is that fortune is to happen, take place while property is to invest with properties, or qualities.

fortune

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Destiny, especially favorable.
  • * (1743-1809)
  • you, who men's fortunes in their faces read
  • * {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=
  • A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
  • A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
  • The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • 'Tis more by fortune , lady, than by merit.
  • Good luck.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune .
  • One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
  • A large amount of money.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * (good luck)

    Derived terms

    * * fortune hunter * * * * * *

    Verb

    (fortun)
  • (obsolete) To happen, take place.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew ch. 8:
  • Then the heerdmen, fleed and went there ways into the cite, and tolde everythinge, and what had fortuned unto them that were possessed of the devyls.
  • * {{quote-book, 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, , chapter=Night 20,
  • , It fortuned one night that the Sultan purposed setting out on a journey next morning}}
  • To provide with a fortune.
  • (Richardson)
  • To presage; to tell the fortune of.
  • (Dryden)

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    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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