property
English
Noun
Something that is owned.
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, 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.
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(obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
* Shakespeare
- They have here propertied me.
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rate
English
Noun
(en noun)
(obsolete) The estimated worth of something; value.
* 1599 , William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet , V.3:
- There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.
The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
citation
, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
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Speed.
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* Clarendon
- Many of the horse could not march at that rate , nor come up soon enough.
The relative speed of change or progress.
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The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
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A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
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A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
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Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
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(nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
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(obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
* Spenser
- The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.
(obsolete) Order; arrangement.
* Spenser
- Thus sat they all around in seemly rate .
(obsolete) Ratification; approval.
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(horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
- daily rate”’; hourly ”’rate ; etc.
Derived terms
* at any rate
* exchange rate
* flat rate
* interest rate
* mortality rate
* failure rate
* rate limiting
Verb
(rat)
To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
- She is rated fourth in the country.
To evaluate or estimate the value of.
- They rate his talents highly.
* South
- To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.
To consider or regard.
- He rated this book brilliant.
To deserve; to be worth.
- The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 101:
- Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn’t one of them.
To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
- The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
(transitive, chiefly, British) To evaluate a property’s value for the purposes of local taxation.
(informal) To like; to think highly of.
- The customers don’t rate the new burgers.
To have position (in a certain class).
- She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
- He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
To have value or standing.
- This last performance of hers didn’t rate very high with the judges.
To ratify.
* Chapman
- to rate the truce
To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
Synonyms
* (have position in a certain class) rank
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Verb
(rat)
To berate, scold.
* Shakespeare
- Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!
* Barrow
- Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John IX:
- Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple.
* , I.56:
- Andronicus” the Emperour, finding by chance in his pallace certaine principall men very earnestly disputing against ”Lapodius about one of our points of great importance, taunted and rated them very bitterly, and threatened if they gave not over, he would cause them to be cast into the river.
* 1825 , Sir (Walter Scott), , ch.iv:
- He beheld him, his head still muffled in the veila man borne down and crushed to the earth by the burden of his inward feelings.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), ”, book 2, ch.XV, ”Practical — Devotional
- The successful monk, on the morrow morning, hastens home to . The successful monk, arriving at Ely, is rated for a goose and an owl; is ordered back to say that (Elmset) was the place meant.
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