different between asset vs belonging

English

Etymology

Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æs?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æs?t/, /?æs?t/

Noun

asset (plural assets)

1. Something or someone of any value; any portion of one's property or effects so considered.

   These shares are a valuable asset.

   • January 31 2020, Boris Johnson, Brexit Day speech

     And when I look at this country’s incredible assets. Our scientists, our engineers, our world-leading universities, our armed forces. When I look at the potential of this country waiting to be unleashed, I know that we can turn this opportunity into a stunning success.

2. (software) Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
3. (espionage) An intelligence asset.
4. (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breasts or buttocks or a man's genitalia.
   • 2009, Kaitlynn Maguire and Margaret Tingley, Serendipitous Moments of Female Sensuality, p. 27:

     Perhaps it is simply common for wives to want their female friends to see their husband nude – especially if he has nice assets. Honestly, I also wanted to see the dick of Brian and Andrew.

   • 2009, Cheyenne McCray, The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel, p. 189:

     “Slave Alexi has nice assets.”

Antonyms

• liability

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• asset-backed
• cultural asset

Translations

See also

• ownership equity

Anagrams

• SEATs, SESTA, Seats, TASes, TESSA, Tessa, easts, sates, satés, seats, setas, tases, tasse

Danish

Noun

asset n

1. singular definite of as

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English asset.

Noun

asset m (invariable)

1. asset (economic)

Anagrams

• sesta
• stesa
• tasse
• tessa

Latin

Verb

asset

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of ass?

Swedish

Noun

asset

1. definite singular of ass

Anagrams

• asets, etsas, tasse

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??l????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??l????/
• Rhymes: -????
• Hyphenation: be?long?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English belonginge, belanging, belangand, equivalent to belong +? -ing.

Verb

belonging

1. present participle of belong

Etymology 2

From belong +? -ing.

Noun

belonging (countable and uncountable, plural belongings)

1. (uncountable) The feeling that one belongs.

   I have a feeling of belonging in London.

   A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.

2. (countable, chiefly in the plural) Something physical that is owned.

   Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.

   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     […] Thyself and thy belongings

     Are not thine own so proper as to waste

     Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Compass, 1958, Chapter 9, p. 117,^[2]

     In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers. Picked over their possessions for the journey to the west.

   • 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, 1992, Part I, p. 22,^[3]

     Now, upstairs, she changed into faded Levis and a green sweater, and fastened round her wrist her third most valued belonging, a gold watch […]

3. (plural only, colloquial, dated) family; relations; household.
   • 1854, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, London: Bradbury & Evans, Chapter 33, p. 322,^[4]

     When Lady Kew said Sic volo, sic jubeo [Thus I will, thus I command], I promise you few persons of her ladyship’s belongings stopped, before they did her biddings, to ask her reasons.

   • 1896, Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands, Part II, Chapter Three,^[5]

     As soon as the principal personages were seated, the verandah of the house was filled silently by the muffled-up forms of Lakamba’s female belongings.

Synonyms

• (something physical that is owned): possession, thing

Translations

Anagrams

• englobing