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 ...

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.

2012年11月16日 · Some quick dictionary research will reveal that it is standard practice not to capitalize proprietary nouns-turned-verbs. In some cases, the capitalized equivalent is also acceptable. This is a rule that largely holds, in my opinion, for those words that still exist in …

2016年12月19日 · I think you're looking for dissimulate (or dissemble); alternatives include prevaricate (avoid a direct answer) equivocate (give an ambiguous answer: "you will emerge from the war with the Romans victorious"), and obfuscate (give a confusing answer that serves to hide the real information), but all of those require you to say something.

2019年5月7日 · Personally, I would probably use "Zip file", treating Zip as a proper noun (irrespective of whether or not it is still a proprietary name). Here I disagree with @geekahedron, in that it is still an identifying name irrespective of whether it is still a proprietary name: just as " Word file " is identifying name (even though word is, of course ...

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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