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    [Adjective]  | "own" | \ ˈōn \


    1: belonging to oneself or itself —usually used following a possessive case or possessive adjective

    2: —used to express immediate or direct kinship

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English oȝen, owen, awen, going back to Old English āgen, originally past participle of āgan "to possess, own, have" ;

      * Note : Similar use of the past participle of the cognate verb is evident in other Germanic languages: Old Frisian āin, ēin, ēgen "own," Old Saxon ēgan, Middle Dutch ēghin, eighen, Old High German eigan, Old Icelandic eiginn.;

    [Adjective]  | "own-brand" 


    1: a product that is made for a store and has the store's name on it

    [Adjective]  | "own-label" 


    1: a product that is made for a store and has the store's name on it

    [Verb]  | "own" 


    1: to have or hold as property : possess

    2: to have power or mastery over : dominate

    3: to humiliate or embarrass (someone) in view of others and especially online

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Probably verbal derivative of {see: |own:1|own:1};

      * Note : This verb is apparently unattested before the late sixteenth century, and is not continuous with early Middle English æȝenen, ahnen, ahnien (Layamon's Brut,Ormulum) "to gain control of, have possession of," going back to Old English āgnian "to own, possess, take possession of" (with parallel forms in other Germanic languages), a derivative of āgen {own:1|own:1}. Compare {owner|owner}, from which own may be in part a back-formation.;

    [Verb]  | "own up" 


    1: to admit to being responsible for something —usually used with to

    Origin: 1844 ;

    [Verb]  | "co-own" | \ ˌkō-ˈōn \


    1: to own (something) along with one or more others

    Origin: 1864 ;

    [Pronoun]  | "own" 


    1: one or ones belonging to oneself —used after a possessive and without a following noun

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English owne, going back to Old English āgen, nominalized form of āgen {see: |own:1|own:1};

    [Noun]  | "own goal" 


    1: a goal in soccer, hockey, etc., that a player accidentally scores against his or her own team

    2: something that one does thinking it will help him or her but that actually causes one harm

    [Idiomatic phrase]  | "take one's own life" 


    1: to kill oneself : to die by suicide

    Origin: 1669 ;

    [Idiom]  | "after one's own heart" 


    1: —used to say that someone has likes and dislikes similar to one's own

    [Verb]  | "own" 


    1: to keep, control, or experience as one's own;


      * e.g., " ... we own a modest house and an equally modest car "




    [Verb]  | "own (up)" 


    1: to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid;


      * e.g., " ... had a strong suspicion about which coworker stole her food from the office fridge, but the likely culprit refused to own up "



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    [Verb]  | "own (up to)" 


    1: to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly;


      * e.g., " ... owned up to damaging the car "



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    •  deny




    [Phrase]  | "by one's own bootstraps" 


    1: without aid or support;


      * e.g., " ... After years of struggling, she managed to pull herself up by her own bootstraps and start on a better path. "



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    [Phrase]  | "come into one's own" 


    1: to reach a desired level of accomplishment;


      * e.g., " ... That intern has really come into her own over the past year. "



    •  Antonyms : 

    •  fail




    [Phrase]  | "of one's own accord" 


    1: of one's own free will;


      * e.g., " ... No one sent me; I came here of my own accord. "




    [Phrase]  | "on one's own" 


    1: not being in the company of others;


      * e.g., " ... She enjoyed traveling on her own. "




    2: without aid or support;


      * e.g., " ... She was fully capable of handling the situation on her own. "



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    [Phrase]  | "on one's own hook" 


    1: without aid or support;


      * e.g., " ... He managed to build a successful business on his own hook. "



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    [Phrase]  | "on one's own initiative" 


    1: without aid or support;


      * e.g., " ... She began writing her dissertation on her own initiative prior to entering grad school. "



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    [Phrase]  | "came into one's own" 


    1: to reach a desired level of accomplishment;


      * e.g., " ... That intern has really come into her own over the past year. "




     [ "own" ]

    1: To win a round in a game. (usually a video/pc game)

      * e.g.,  ...  I 0wn3d at the Halo 2 tournement. 

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    2: To beat someone at a game.(usually a video/pc game)

      * e.g.,  ...  I 0wn3d you that time. 

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    3:  To be better at someone. (usually a video/pc game)

      * e.g.,  ...  I 0wn you. 

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    1: Own- To own.

      * e.g.,  ... Headshot. Owned. 

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    2: To own is to beat an opponent while displaying a high degree of skill and style.

      * e.g.,  ... Pistol kill from Zais- 

     [ "own" ]

    1: To dominate or obliterate someone or something.

      * e.g.,  ... I just owned Tom in Halo.  

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    2: (usually in video games)

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    1: If you can bury it in your backyard at any point in time, without facing criminal consequences, you officially own that object.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude, I completely own my dog. 

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    1: Own- the act of putting someone in their place.

      * e.g.,  ...  You just got owned!  

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    2: Mostly done verbally but can also describe a physical action.

      * e.g.,  ... That was total ownage. 

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    3: When someone gets shot down. Also called ownage.

     [ "own" ]

    1: 1) To possess an asset.

      * e.g.,  ... Pete was owned in a paintball game by Bert due to greatly inferior ability. 

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    2: Slang: (owned) 1) One that has been worked, eliminated by someone more skilled.

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    1: own - to own (verb)

      * e.g.,  ...  dude, hiroshima got owned 

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    2: to own is to dominate something or someone.

      * e.g.,  ...  dude, nagasaki got owned! 

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    1: To say that something is the best or better than something else.

      * e.g.,  ... Nique: Those tacos were great. 

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    1: What Chuck Norris does on a daily basis.

      * e.g.,  ... Guy 1 : Did you just see Chuck Norris own Mr. T's ass? 

     [ "own" ]

    1: To have control over, ie. in cracking, to have gained root- or administrator-level access to one's computer, by (for instance) installing a trojan-horse program thereupon, exploiting a security loophole in its operating system, or socially-engineering access to its password. (Often the domain of script-kiddies and malicious crackers, rather than "hackers" of the creative type.)

      * e.g.,  ... "I own your box." 

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