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OWN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
Example:
'ain' is Scottish
Synonyms:
ain; own
Classified under:
Similar:
personal (concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they own ... he / she / it owns
Past simple: owned
Past participle: owned
-ing form: owning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Have ownership or possession of
Example:
How many cars does she have?
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Verb group:
feature; have (have as a feature)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "own"):
prepossess (possess beforehand)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
owner ((law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business)
owner (a person who owns something)
Context examples:
I shall forget my own name soon, I suppose.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“Most likely Trelawney's own men,” said the doctor; “those he had picked up for himself before he lit on Silver.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“You have saved us a long walk, which would have brought us back on our own traces. Let us follow the return track.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The people who had turned out were the girl’s own family; and pretty soon, the doctor, for whom she had been sent put in his appearance.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She ran to the door of her own house, but it was shut; then she knocked at the window and cried: “Hans, is Elsie within?” “Yes,” answered Hans, “she is within.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Well now, Jane, you know, or at least I will tell you, that when a criminal is accused, he is always allowed to speak in his own defence.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They also grew the pepper on its own as a control group.
(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)
The transfer of blood from a placenta to an individual whose own blood production system is suppressed.
(Placental blood transplantation, NCI Dictionary)
The dog was unable to gnaw through the leather at his own end of the stick.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And mind you, it’s for your own soul’s sake.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
