different between property vs capacity

English

Alternative forms

• propretie

Etymology

From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietas (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Doublet of propriety.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??.p?.ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??.p?.ti/, [?p??.p?.?i], enPR: pr??p?rt?
• Hyphenation: prop?erty

Noun

property (countable and uncountable, plural properties)

1. Something that is owned.
3. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.

   Synonyms: land, parcel

4. Real estate; the business of selling houses.

5. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
6. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
7. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
8. (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.

9. (usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.

   Synonym: prop

10. (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (something owned): See Thesaurus:property
• (attribute or abstract quality of an object): See Thesaurus:characteristic

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

property (third-person singular simple present properties, present participle propertying, simple past and past participle propertied)

1. (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.

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2. (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
   • 1595, Shakespeare, King John, V. ii. 79, l. 2359 - 2362

     Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:

     I am too high-born to be propertied,

     To be a secondary at control,

     Or useful serving-man and instrument,

     To any sovereign state throughout the world.

References

• property at OneLook Dictionary Search
• property in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• property in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle English capacite, from Old French capacite, from Latin cap?cit?s, from capax (“able to hold much”), from capi? (“to hold, to contain, to take, to understand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??pæs?ti/

Noun

capacity (countable and uncountable, plural capacities)

1. The ability to hold, receive or absorb
2. A measure of such ability; volume
3. The maximum amount that can be held

   It was hauling a capacity load.

   The orchestra played to a capacity crowd.

4. Capability; the ability to perform some task
5. The maximum that can be produced.
6. Mental ability; the power to learn
7. A faculty; the potential for growth and development
8. A role; the position in which one functions
9. Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
10. Electrical capacitance.
11. (operations) The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.

    Its capacity rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum capacity was 200 tons per hour.

Synonyms

• throughput
• See also Thesaurus:skill

Derived terms

• capac
• capacitance
• capacitate
• capacitive
• capacitation
• capacitor

Translations

References

• capacity at OneLook Dictionary Search

Adjective

capacity

1. Filling the allotted space.

   There will be a capacity crowd at Busch stadium for the sixth game.

   • 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal

     At an overcast Eton Dorney, roared on by a capacity crowd including Prince Harry and Prince William, the volume rose as they entered the final stages.

Related terms

• capacious

Further reading

• capacity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• capacity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• capacity at OneLook Dictionary Search