What's the difference between Property and Attribute
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Surely the type would be Fruit, as part of an assembly of Healthy in a project called Food?
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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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Did you consider trying the obvious? Google: define property Result: noun 1. a thing or things belonging to someone; possessions collectively. 2. an attribute, quality, or characteristic of something.
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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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A property is a proper, inherent quality of an object. Like the lyrics and music of a song - if you change those, it is a different song. An attribute is a quality attributed to an object, like the name of song or what you call it. The song called by a different name would sound just as sweet. The property is the piece of land, no matter who is attributed as the owner of that land. There is certainy a diffuse grey zone: If you have a look at the property, you may see its size by yourself. You may report that it is a thousand by two thosand feet. I might report that it is three hundred by six hundred meters. The proper size of the land doesn't change, but you and put different labels, different attributions, on the land to indcate its its size. Its real size is a property, but a measurement of that size, in some unit, may be termed an attribute. I am not quite sure about that - the owner certainly has little to do with the lot itself, and is clearly an attribute. A measurement, whether in feet or meters, does represent a proper quality quite directly. But there is a limit to the processing before it becomes a non-proper quality: The lyrics is a proper quality of the song, a two summary in two sentences can be attributed to the song, but is not a proper quality of the song. You have to draw the line somewhere, even if you do it with a gray color, wide and untidy bush. In any case, .net really got it the wrong way: The "real" quality inside the object is referred to as something attributed to the object, while a processing of the "real" object quality, presenting a quality that is not "real", is called a property, a proper value. It should have been the other way around.
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A property is a proper, inherent quality of an object. Like the lyrics and music of a song - if you change those, it is a different song. An attribute is a quality attributed to an object, like the name of song or what you call it. The song called by a different name would sound just as sweet. The property is the piece of land, no matter who is attributed as the owner of that land. There is certainy a diffuse grey zone: If you have a look at the property, you may see its size by yourself. You may report that it is a thousand by two thosand feet. I might report that it is three hundred by six hundred meters. The proper size of the land doesn't change, but you and put different labels, different attributions, on the land to indcate its its size. Its real size is a property, but a measurement of that size, in some unit, may be termed an attribute. I am not quite sure about that - the owner certainly has little to do with the lot itself, and is clearly an attribute. A measurement, whether in feet or meters, does represent a proper quality quite directly. But there is a limit to the processing before it becomes a non-proper quality: The lyrics is a proper quality of the song, a two summary in two sentences can be attributed to the song, but is not a proper quality of the song. You have to draw the line somewhere, even if you do it with a gray color, wide and untidy bush. In any case, .net really got it the wrong way: The "real" quality inside the object is referred to as something attributed to the object, while a processing of the "real" object quality, presenting a quality that is not "real", is called a property, a proper value. It should have been the other way around.
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I would argue that the color/colour would be a calculated field that is based on the age of the banana. It actually seems like it should really be more than a color to account for spots.
class Banana {
DateTime _estimatedPollinationDateTime;
DateTime _pickedDateTime;Color getBaseColor() {
return colorFunc(_pickedDateTime);
}
Pattern getPattern() {
... 10% spotted
}
Boolean isEdible() {
// always!
return true;
}
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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?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Not sure if this is helpful, but back many years ago, in CHEM 101 they taught us about two types of properties: Intensive Properties - For example, gold. Any amount of gold is still gold. Extensive Properties - A kg of gold is not a lb of gold. If one were to figure out how to differentiate the implications of the the two words-of-interest, it could possibly follow along the lines of the above. With some syntactical candy, of course.
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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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You can also "attribute" a quotation to a given person but this is a different meaning and has nothing to do with "property".
I think you're off the mark on this particular example. When you attribute a quote, you are saying it is the property of some source. "Nothing to do with" is, at least as I observe, a substantial overstatement.
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"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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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
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Say for example I want to describe a car. It has a colour, top speed, engine size, length, leather seats and so on.
Neither. Those are "extra-cost options". :|
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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
Trump tower is a property; tweets are attributes.
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Surely the type would be Fruit, as part of an assembly of Healthy in a project called Food?
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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
My understanding has always been that a property is a distinctive attribute. In other words a property is an attribute that in part makes something what it is, whereas an attribute can be just a characteristic of a thing. Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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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?
So properties of a class and attributes of an instance sort of.
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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 a proper, inherent quality of an object. Like the lyrics and music of a song - if you change those, it is a different song. An attribute is a quality attributed to an object, like the name of song or what you call it. The song called by a different name would sound just as sweet. The property is the piece of land, no matter who is attributed as the owner of that land. There is certainy a diffuse grey zone: If you have a look at the property, you may see its size by yourself. You may report that it is a thousand by two thosand feet. I might report that it is three hundred by six hundred meters. The proper size of the land doesn't change, but you and put different labels, different attributions, on the land to indcate its its size. Its real size is a property, but a measurement of that size, in some unit, may be termed an attribute. I am not quite sure about that - the owner certainly has little to do with the lot itself, and is clearly an attribute. A measurement, whether in feet or meters, does represent a proper quality quite directly. But there is a limit to the processing before it becomes a non-proper quality: The lyrics is a proper quality of the song, a two summary in two sentences can be attributed to the song, but is not a proper quality of the song. You have to draw the line somewhere, even if you do it with a gray color, wide and untidy bush. In any case, .net really got it the wrong way: The "real" quality inside the object is referred to as something attributed to the object, while a processing of the "real" object quality, presenting a quality that is not "real", is called a property, a proper value. It should have been the other way around.
I believe this is as good an answer on this subject can get. If I change the name of a song it's still the same song, but if I change the lyrics and music it becomes a new song but it remains a song. Similarly, if I change the colour of of a car it's still the same car, but if I change the size it becomes a different model of a car. So colour is an attribute and size is a property in this case. If it had been in the Q&A I would have marked it an answer. Now I'm going to build a database.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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My understanding has always been that a property is a distinctive attribute. In other words a property is an attribute that in part makes something what it is, whereas an attribute can be just a characteristic of a thing. Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
My dumbed down, potential wrong view of this (partly sarcastic): Property - could be derived from Proprietary - like others has mentioned - It is something inheritly linked, or linked is such a way that cannot be removed or changed. Car is made of Metal - is Property of the car. Attribute - is something you give, associate, or Attribute (in my head the pronounceaction sound difference) to something. I have painted the Car blue - I have given it a blue paint. I can change the paint It has stickers. I have attributed stickers to my car. Along this line then. My parents are Properties of Me. But a girlfriend is an Attribute. Does a wife convert from Attribute to Property? And if you device. The divorce sticks. Unless it was annulled. This makes sense right :sigh:
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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