Spirit vs Property - What's the difference?

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Spirit is a related term of property.

As nouns the difference between spirit and property

is that spirit is spirit (alcohol) while property is something that is owned.

As a verb property is

(obsolete) to invest with properties, or qualities.

spirit

English

Noun

(en noun)

The undying essence of a human; the soul.

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit .}}

* 1967 , MacCormack, Woman Times Seven

a triumph of the spirit over the flesh.

A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.

A wandering spirit haunts the island.

* John Locke

Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark.

Enthusiasm.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil Dawkes, work=BBC Sport

, title= Sunderland 2-2 West Brom , passage=The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.}}

The manner or style of something.

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* Alexander Pope

A perfect judge will read each work of wit / With the same spirit that its author writ.

(usually, in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.

Energy; ardour.

* Fuller

"Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired.

One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.

a ruling spirit'''; a schismatic '''spirit

* Dryden

Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.

Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.

to be cheerful, or in good spirits'''; to be down-hearted, or in bad '''spirits

* South

God has made a spirit' of building succeed a ' spirit of pulling down.

(obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

* Spenser

For, else he sure had left not one alive, / But all, in his Revenge, of Spirit would deprive.

* Spenser

The mild air, with season moderate, / Gently attempered, and disposed so well, / That still it breathed forth sweet spirit .

(obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h ; also, a mark denoting aspiration.

* Ben Jonson

Be it a letter or spirit , we have great use for it.

Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.

the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document

(alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).

* Chaucer

the four spirits and the bodies seven

(dyeing) stannic chloride

Derived terms

(Derived terms) * community spirit * free spirit * Holy Spirit * in good spirits * in spirit (adverb) * in the spirit it was meant (idiom) * kindred spirit * methlyated spirit * moving spirit * party spirit * petroleum spirit * poor in spirit * proof spirit * pyroacetic spirit * rectified spirit * shad-spirit * spiritdom * spirited * spiriten * spirit-filled * spiritful * spirithood * spiritish * spiritless * spiritlike * spiritling * spiritly * spiritness * spiritous * spiritship * spiritsome * spiritual * spiritually * spirituality * spirit away (verb) * spirit gum * spirit lamp * spirit level * spirit off * spirit of hartshorn * spirit of salt * spirit of the law * spirit of turpentine * spirit of vitriol * spirit of wine * spirit rapper/spirit rapping * spirit stove * spirit world * spirit writing * surgical spirit * team spirit * that's the spirit * the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak * white spirit * wood spirit * zombie spirit (spirit)

Verb

(en verb)

To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 8, author=Dave Kehr, title=Buñuel at His Wildest, in Circulation Again, work=New York Times citation

, passage=God does not make an appearance, but the Devil (Ms. Pinal) emphatically does: first in the guise of a schoolgirl who tries to lure Simon down with the sight of her shapely legs; then as a bearded but blatantly female Jesus carrying a lamb; and finally as a stylishly coiffed woman who succeeds in spiriting Simon off, by means of a jet, to a Manhattan discotheque — Buñuel’s persuasive idea of hell.}}

* Willis

I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity.

To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up .

Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.

* Jonathan Swift

Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion.

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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.