building
English
Noun
(en noun)
(uncountable) The act or process of building.
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A closed structure with walls and a roof.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
, volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Denied an education by war
, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
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Synonyms
* (act or process of building) construction
* (closed structure with walls and a roof) edifice
* See also
Derived terms
* apartment building
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* building blocks
* building permit
* building society
* building trade
* office building
* outbuilding
* shipbuilding
* bodybuilding
* main building
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property
English
Noun
Something that is owned.
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*{{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.
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Real estate; the business of selling houses.
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The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
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* {{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.
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* {{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.
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An object used in a dramatic production.
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(label) Propriety; correctness.
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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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