What's the difference between Property and Attribute
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No, I don't mean in .Net, I mean semantically. Say for example I want to describe a car. It has a colour, top speed, engine size, length, leather seats and so on. When is it an attribute and when is it a property? Or is there an even better word?
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No, I don't mean in .Net, I mean semantically. Say for example I want to describe a car. It has a colour, top speed, engine size, length, leather seats and so on. When is it an attribute and when is it a property? Or is there an even better word?
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I'd say that the two words were essentially synonymous outside of IT.
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So a bug? :~
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No, I don't mean in .Net, I mean semantically. Say for example I want to describe a car. It has a colour, top speed, engine size, length, leather seats and so on. When is it an attribute and when is it a property? Or is there an even better word?
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In the English language "property" and "attribute" are exactly the same meaning in the case where "property" is a property of an object such as "a banana is yellow". In this case, "yellow" is an attribute or property of the banana. If you are buying a house then the house can be referred to as a "property" but this is a different meaning and has nothing to do with "attribute". You can also "attribute" a quotation to a given person but this is a different meaning and has nothing to do with "property". Additionally, you can say, "That is my property" when referring to an object that belongs to you. Again, nothing to do with "attribute".
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In the English language "property" and "attribute" are exactly the same meaning in the case where "property" is a property of an object such as "a banana is yellow". In this case, "yellow" is an attribute or property of the banana. If you are buying a house then the house can be referred to as a "property" but this is a different meaning and has nothing to do with "attribute". You can also "attribute" a quotation to a given person but this is a different meaning and has nothing to do with "property". Additionally, you can say, "That is my property" when referring to an object that belongs to you. Again, nothing to do with "attribute".
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I was hoping one was more related to nouns and the other one to adjectives or adverbs
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So a bug?
No, no. A Bug is an "undocumented feature"; a "feature" is just something that might or might not work.
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If the undocumented feature is working, is it still a bug?
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a property is, well a property - the land under your house. Can't move it, it's fixed. an attribute is the house, can replace it, can completely remove it, grass is an attribute, a hole in the proptery is an attribute - all those can be changed. sooo, everything about your car is an attribute. The fact it is a car is a property. ok, can get silly and ask "what if I remove all the wheels, is it still a car?" well, it weelie is still a car, just missing some of it's attributes (so not a very useful car).
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What if I added some more properties and turned it into a boat and a helicopter all at once? Also it's important that it runs on raspberry juice (or whale oil) and has a robot as the pilot[^].
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den2k88 wrote:
property, attribute are mostly interchangeable AFAIK
disagree, it's contextually dependent. Example: a yellow banana property: banana - it can not be anything else (excluding if destroyed) attribute: color: yellow - the color of the banana can change - left alone will become brown, black, slime, destroyed but the color itself (not color of the banana) is a property. yellow is yellow, it can be no other.
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When you list up the someone's inner properties, it's a tribute. * Do not bother, I'm already gone *
I rather liked this one. bookmarked.
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I was hoping one was more related to nouns and the other one to adjectives or adverbs
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Isn't the English language fun! :-D
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den2k88 wrote:
property, attribute are mostly interchangeable AFAIK
disagree, it's contextually dependent. Example: a yellow banana property: banana - it can not be anything else (excluding if destroyed) attribute: color: yellow - the color of the banana can change - left alone will become brown, black, slime, destroyed but the color itself (not color of the banana) is a property. yellow is yellow, it can be no other.
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They other way around maybe.
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I was hoping one was more related to nouns and the other one to adjectives or adverbs
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Nope! It's just that simple. Two words for the same thing; just like "motorcar" and "automobile". The English language has a lot of redundancy because we stole a lot of our words from several different languages so we end up with a lot of duplicate use cases.
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No, I don't mean in .Net, I mean semantically. Say for example I want to describe a car. It has a colour, top speed, engine size, length, leather seats and so on. When is it an attribute and when is it a property? Or is there an even better word?
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I agree that they're pretty much synonymous in everyday usage. But... What are the properties of _A_ car? What are the attributes of _THIS_ car?
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When you list up the someone's inner properties, it's a tribute. * Do not bother, I'm already gone *
If you have a property, you will have to pay a tribute :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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No, I don't mean in .Net, I mean semantically. Say for example I want to describe a car. It has a colour, top speed, engine size, length, leather seats and so on. When is it an attribute and when is it a property? Or is there an even better word?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
a property is an "intrinsic" quality of a subject and an attribute is a quality of the subject perceived by an observer? they can be identical, but there are also chances that they differ ...
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No, I don't mean in .Net, I mean semantically. Say for example I want to describe a car. It has a colour, top speed, engine size, length, leather seats and so on. When is it an attribute and when is it a property? Or is there an even better word?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
I was thinking they were both characteristics as I read through all the responses... So I had to google both and read the various definitions... Some even went on to compare to a virtue, so sorry that I do not have. Anyways this about sums up that they are one in the same, only real difference is the contexts they get used in, their lineage, and popularity.
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an attribute, quality, or characteristic of something.
[define: property - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+property)
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a property is, well a property - the land under your house. Can't move it, it's fixed. an attribute is the house, can replace it, can completely remove it, grass is an attribute, a hole in the proptery is an attribute - all those can be changed. sooo, everything about your car is an attribute. The fact it is a car is a property. ok, can get silly and ask "what if I remove all the wheels, is it still a car?" well, it weelie is still a car, just missing some of it's attributes (so not a very useful car).
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I'd say the house is a property, the windows are an attribute, actually the land is the equivalent of field which ties in quite nicely with .net.
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Surely the type would be Fruit, as part of an assembly of Healthy in a project called Food?
