intellectual Definition–adjective | 1. | appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits. | | 2. | of or pertaining to the intellect or its use: intellectual powers. | | 3. | possessing or showing intellect or mental capacity, esp. to a high degree: an intellectual person. | | 4. | guided or developed by or relying on the intellect rather than upon emotions or feelings; rational. | | 5. | characterized by or suggesting a predominance of intellect: an intellectual way of speaking. | –noun | 6. | a person of superior intellect. | | 7. | a person who places a high value on or pursues things of interest to the intellect or the more complex forms and fields of knowledge, as aesthetic or philosophical matters, esp. on an abstract and general level. | | 8. | an extremely rational person; a person who relies on intellect rather than on emotions or feelings. | | 9. | a person professionally engaged in mental labor, as a writer or teacher. | | 10. | intellectuals, Archaic. | b. | things pertaining to the intellect. | | |
From Dictionary property Definition–noun, plural -ties. | 1. | that which a person owns; the possession or possessions of a particular owner: They lost all their property in the fire. | | 2. | goods, land, etc., considered as possessions: The corporation is a means for the common ownership of property. | | 3. | a piece of land or real estate: property on Main Street. | | 4. | ownership; right of possession, enjoyment, or disposal of anything, esp. of something tangible: to have property in land. | | 5. | something at the disposal of a person, a group of persons, or the community or public: The secret of the invention became common property. | | 6. | an essential or distinctive attribute or quality of a thing: the chemical and physical properties of an element. | | 7. | Logic. | a. | any attribute or characteristic. | | b. | (in Aristotelian logic) an attribute not essential to a species but always connected with it and with it alone. | | | 8. | Also called prop. a usually movable item, other than costumes or scenery, used on the set of a theater production, motion picture, etc.; any object handled or used by an actor in a performance. | | 9. | a written work, play, movie, etc., bought or optioned for commercial production or distribution. | | 10. | a person, esp. one under contract in entertainment or sports, regarded as having commercial value: an actor who was a hot property at the time. | |
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