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OP:Quote: No, I don't mean in .Net, I mean semantically.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Or is there an even better word?
A feature.
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So a bug? 
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Quote: 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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Most English speakers don't use those terms. We tend to say watchamacallit, or thingummybob, or just point at it. 
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I'd say that the two words were essentially synonymous outside of IT.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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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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Isn't the English language fun! 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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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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Forogar wrote: 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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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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So properties of a class and attributes of an instance sort of.
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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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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.GoogleQuote: an attribute, quality, or characteristic of something. define: property - Google Search
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+1 for learning a new way to google-
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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 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.
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I thought that attributes always start with an @... or is that annotation?
Is an annotation an attribute of a property?
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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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Quote: 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". 
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Trump tower is a property; tweets are attributes.
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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.
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