2015年1月15日 · 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:

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

2015年6月30日 · 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 ...

2016年3月27日 · to deprive of possession or proprietary rights; to transfer (the property of another) to one's own possession; For example, in the following sentence: The Government's motion seeks to expropriate the company's private intellectual property to facilitate an investigation. (emphasis added)

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.

2015年12月16日 · 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.

2019年3月28日 · One can provide [basically] any X to Y. However, "provide food for their young" means specifically: care for them by giving them food.

2015年12月23日 · 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:

Band Aid is a US proprietary brand. The equivalent in the UK, and across much of the Anglo world, is Elastoplast. Years ago people in Britain used to use the word Elastoplast and no doubt many still do. But I sense it has given way to some extent to sticking plaster, or just plaster as an everyday term - perhaps because Elastoplast is a bit of ...

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