What is the difference between property and proprietary?

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Proprietary is a related term of property.

As nouns the difference between property and proprietary

is that property is something that is owned while proprietary is a proprietor or owner.

As a verb property

is to invest with properties, or qualities.

As an adjective proprietary is

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

property

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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.

Statistics

proprietary

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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.