Attribute vs. Property: Know the Difference

Attribute and Property Definitions

Attribute

To regard as arising from a particular cause or source; ascribe

Attributed their failure to a lack of preparation.

Property

Something owned; a possession.

Attribute

To regard (a work, for example) as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time

Attributed the painting to Titian.

Attributed the vase to 18th-century Japan.

Property

A piece of real estate

Has a swimming pool on the property.

Attribute

A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something.

Property

Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title

Properties such as copyrights and trademarks.

Attribute

An object associated with and serving to identify a character, personage, or office

Lightning bolts are an attribute of Zeus.

Property

Something tangible or intangible, such as a claim or a right, in which a person has a legally cognizable, compensable interest.

Attribute

(Grammar) A word or phrase syntactically subordinate to another word or phrase that it modifies; for example, my sister's and brown in my sister's brown dog.

Property

Possessions considered as a group

Moved with all his property.

Attribute

A characteristic or quality of a thing.

His finest attribute is his kindness.

Property

A theatrical prop.

Attribute

An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.

The eagle and the bolt of lightning are attributes of Jove.

Property

An attribute, characteristic, or quality

A compound with anti-inflammatory properties.

Attribute

(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.

Property

Something that is owned.

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.).

Attribute

(logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.

Property

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

There is a large house on the property.

Attribute

An option or setting belonging to some object.

This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.

A file with the read-only attribute set cannot be overwritten.

Property

(British) Real estate; the business of selling houses.

He works in property as a housing consultant.

Attribute

(programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.

Properties can be marked as obsolete with an attribute, which will cause the compiler to generate a warning if they are used.

Property

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

Attribute

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Property

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

Charm is his most endearing property.

Attribute

A numeric value representing the colours of part of the screen display.

Property

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

Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.

Attribute

To ascribe (something) to a given cause, reason etc.

Property

(computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class.

You need to set the debugging property to "verbose".

Attribute

To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone.

This poem is attributed to Browning.

Property

A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.

Costumes and scenery are distinguished from property properly speaking.

Attribute

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).

We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.

The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.

Property

(US) 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.

Attribute

That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.

But mercy is above this sceptered away; . . .It is an attribute to God himself.

Property

A produced stage play, movie, or the like.

Attribute

Reputation.

Property

(obsolete) Propriety; correctness.

Attribute

A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

Property

(obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.

Attribute

Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

Property

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

Attribute

A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;

Self-confidence is not an endearing property

Property

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.

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

Attribute

An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

Property

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

Attribute

Attribute or credit to;

We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare

People impute great cleverness to cats

Property

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

Here I disclaim all my paternal care,Propinquity and property of blood.

Shall man assume a property in man?

Attribute

Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;

The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class

Property

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.