Appropriate vs. Property

Suitable or fit; proper.

Example: ‘The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.’;

Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

Example: ‘I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.’; ‘While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.’;

(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

To make suitable; to suit.

(transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

Example: ‘Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.’;

(transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.

Example: ‘A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.’; ‘to appropriate money for the increase of the navy’;

To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

Example: ‘In its strict and appropriate meaning.’; ‘Appropriate acts of divine worship.’; ‘It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.’;

To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.

To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; - with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.

To make suitable; to suit.

To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.

A property; attribute.

give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause;

Example: ‘I will earmark this money for your research’;

take possession of by force, as after an invasion;

Example: ‘the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants’; ‘The army seized the town’; ‘The militia captured the castle’;

suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc;

Example: ‘a book not appropriate for children’; ‘a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity’; ‘it seems that an apology is appropriate’;

appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness

meant or adapted for an occasion or use;

Example: ‘a tractor suitable (or fit) for heavy duty’; ‘not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy’;

suitable and fitting;

Example: ‘the tailored clothes were harmonious with her military bearing’;

being of striking appropriateness and pertinence;

Example: ‘the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images’; ‘an apt reply’;

Something that is owned.

Example: ‘Leave those books alone! They are my property.’; ‘Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.).’;

A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.

Example: ‘There is a large house on the property.’;

Real estate; the business of selling houses.

Example: ‘He works in property as a housing consultant.’;

The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.

An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.

Example: ‘Charm is his most endearing property.’;

An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.

Example: ‘Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.’;

(computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.

Example: ‘You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".’;

A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.

Example: ‘Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.’;

(obsolete) Propriety; correctness.

(obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.

(obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.

Example: ‘#* Shakespeare’;

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.

Example: ‘Property is correctly a synonym for peculiar quality; but it is frequently used as coextensive with quality in general.’;

An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which constitute excellence.

The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title.

Example: ‘Here I disclaim all my paternal care,Propinquity and property of blood.’; ‘Shall man assume a property in man?’;

That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property.

All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.

Example: ‘I will draw a bill of properties.’;

Propriety; correctness.

To invest which properties, or qualities.

To make a property of; to appropriate.

Example: ‘They have here propertied me.’;

any area set aside for a particular purpose;

Example: ‘who owns this place?’; ‘the president was concerned about the property across from the White House’;

something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone;

Example: ‘that hat is my property’; ‘he is a man of property’;

a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class;

Example: ‘a study of the physical properties of atomic particles’;

a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;

Example: ‘self-confidence is not an endearing property’;

any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie;

Example: ‘before every scene he ran down his checklist of props’;

Property (Latin: Res Privata) in the abstract is what belongs to or with something, whether as an attribute or as a component of said thing. In the context of this article, it is one or more components (rather than attributes), whether physical or incorporeal, of a person's estate; or so belonging to, as in being owned by, a person or jointly a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation or even a society.