Own vs Appropriate - What's the difference?
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(lb) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); "To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to." (Ref 1)
(lb) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
* 1902 , Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness , Tank Books 2007, p. 25:
* 1913 ,
(lb) To claim as one's own; to answer to.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
(lb) To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3)
(lb) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
(lb) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled (m).
To illicitly obtain "super-user" or "root" access into a computer system thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
Belonging to; possessed; proper to.
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, title= (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
(obsolete) Not foreign.
(obsolete) To grant; give.
To admit; concede; acknowledge.
* 1611 , Shakespeare, The Tempest , v.:
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. 1, ''Jocelin of Brakelond
To recognise; acknowledge.
To confess.
(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
* (Beilby Porteus)
* (Edward Stillingfleet)
* (John Locke)
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
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(archaic) To make suitable; to suit.
To take to oneself in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right.
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To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; with to'' or ''for .
* 2012 , The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger,
(transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
Own is a related term of appropriate.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between own and appropriate
is that own is (obsolete) to grant; give while appropriate is (obsolete) set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.In lang=en terms the difference between own and appropriate
is that own is to recognise; acknowledge while appropriate is to set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; with to'' or ''for .As verbs the difference between own and appropriate
is that own is (lb) to have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); "to possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to" (ref 1) or own can be (obsolete) to grant; give while appropriate is (archaic) to make suitable; to suit.As adjectives the difference between own and appropriate
is that own is belonging to; possessed; proper to while appropriate is (obsolete) set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.own
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia own) From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) (m). See also the related term (m).Verb
(en verb)- I own this car.
- I am sorry to own I began to worry then.
- They learned how perfectly peaceful the home could be. And they almost regretted—though none of them would have owned to such callousness—that their father was soon coming back.
- I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
- I will own my enemies.
- If he wins, he will own you.
Synonyms
* (have rightful possession of) to possess * (acknowledge responsibility for) be responsible for, admit or take responsibility for * (admit) confess, acknowledge, allow * (defeat) beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, bestDerived terms
* owndom * own up * owner * pwn * disownEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* (informal contraction)Adjective
(en determiner)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own .}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
Usage notes
* implying ownership, often with emphasis. It always follows a possessive pronoun, or a noun in the possessive case.Derived terms
* come into one's own * on one's ownEtymology 3
From (etyl) is attested.Etymology] of the German cognate in [[:w:de:Deutsches Wörterbuch, Deutsches Wörterbuch]
Verb
(en verb)- Two of those fellows you must know and own .
- It must be owned , the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!
- to own one as a son
Statistics
*References
* 1896 , Universal Dictionary of the English Language [UDEL] , v3 p3429: *: To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to. * 1896 , ibid., UDEL * 1896 , ibid., UDEL * 1896 , ibid., UDEL * Notes:appropriate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
- in its strict and appropriate meaning
- appropriate acts of divine worship
- It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.
- I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.
- While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.
citation, page= , passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets. }}
Synonyms
* (suited for) apt, felicitous, fitting, suitableAntonyms
* (all senses) inappropriateDerived terms
* appropriatenessVerb
(appropriat)- (William Paley)
Put armed police in every school, NRA urges
- “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.
- (Blackstone)
