property
/ˈpɹɑ.pɚ.ti/ noun B1- Something that is owned. · Leave those books alone! They are my property.
- A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land. · There is a large house on the property.· He owns over ten properties in the country.
- The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
- An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept. · Charm is his most endearing property.
- An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects. · Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.
- An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that encapsulates an underlying variable. · You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".
- A prop, an object used in a dramatic production. · Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.
- A script, book, screenplay, or the like that is on the market or has been bought for commercial production as a stage play, movie, or the like.
Plural properties
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Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had intended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.
Bennet’s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother’s fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
Bennet’s heart, but for the mortifying supposition of his viewing it all as his own future property.
“She has one only daughter, the heiress of Rosings, and of very extensive property.”
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