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- which is the best preposition to follow proprietary?
Proprietary to is the more popular construction Currently, 'proprietary of' is almost unused according to Google Ngrams Proprietary is an adjective 'Proprietary to A' thus means 'proprietary with regards to A ' Replacing 'proprietary' with a more familiar adjective makes this easier to grasp:
- I just wrote propriety when I meant to say proprietarity, but that . . .
The adjective corresponding to proprietary in Latin is proprietarius I can't find any example of a Latin adjective ending in -ius being nominalized by replacing -ius with the suffix -itas; the usual pattern seems to be instead -ius > -ietas; e g notorius > notorietas 2 Just for fun, the lone example of French "proprietarité" that I found
- Word request: proprietary currency or artificial money
token (BrE) (noun) A piece of paper that you pay for and that somebody can exchange for something in a shop store
- meaning in context - What does uncontrolled document mean? - English . . .
It means it is untracked and can't be rescinded With an electronic document on an secured computer or fire-walled server, a document can be deleted everywhere at the same time such that it ceases to exist, or changed everywhere at once so that its prior versions can't be seen
- Term when a brand name become synonymous of the product it produces
Proprietary eponyms are general words that are, or were at one time, proprietary brand names or service marks Kleenex, for example, is a brand of facial tissues, yet the word is used today to refer to facial tissues of any brand Xerox is a brand of photocopy machine, that word, too, has been since adopted to refer to any brand of photocopy
- Using TM for trademarked term - every time or just once?
A final note here about the use of ™ versus ® As Chicago observes, the ™ symbol is used for unregistered trademarks—names that the the maker is claiming proprietary rights to pending review of a formal application to the U S Patent Office for federal registration of the name
- Im looking for a word that means Intended for particular use
I would use product-specific, even though it isn't the kind of simple term you would prefer Many third-party accessories for particular editions of Apple products, for example, are identified as iPhone 6S–specific, iMac Reina–specific, or the like, when they are designed to work with only a particular model of a product
- Origin of podcast - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The following is an extract on the history of podcasting and the etymology the term Couriousily Ngram appears to show usage of the terms podcast, podcaster and podcasting from 2001:
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