Own vs Old - 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:
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(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.
Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
#Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
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#Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life.
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Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
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Having existed or lived for the specified time.
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(lb) Of an earlier time.
#Former, previous.
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#*1994 , Michael Grumley, Life Drawing
#*:But over my old life, a new life had formed.
#That is no longer in existence.
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#Obsolete; out-of-date.
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#Familiar.
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Tiresome.
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Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
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(lb) Excessive, abundant.
*1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :
*:URSULA: Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old coil at home: it is proved, my Lady Hero hath been falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily abused;
People who are old; old beings; the older generation; usually used with the .
As a verb 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.As an adjective own
is belonging to; possessed; proper to.As a noun old is
age.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
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*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:old
English
(wikipedia old)Adjective
(en-adj)Synonyms
* (having existed for a long period of time) ancient, long in the tooth * (having lived for many years) aged, ageing / aging, elderly, long in the tooth, on in years * (having existed or lived for the specified time) aged, of age * (former) erstwhile, ex-, former, one-time, past * (out-of-date) antiquated, obsolete (words) * See alsoAntonyms
* (having existed for a long period of time) brand new, fresh, new * (having lived for many years) young * (former) current, latest, newDerived terms
* age-old * any old * big old * good old * little old * old age * old-age * Old Akkadian * Old Armenian * Old Assyrian * old as the hills * Old Babylonian * Old Blighty * Old Bulgarian * Old Church Slavic * Old Church Slavonic * old college try * old country * Old Czech * Old Dutch * olden * Old Egyptian * Old English * old fart * old-fashioned * old flame * Old Flemish * old fogey * old franc * Old Franconian * Old Frankish * Old French * Old Frisian * Old Glory * old gold * old growth * old guard * old hand * old hat * Old High German * Old Icelandic * oldies * Old Indic * Old Indo-Aryan * Old Ionic * Old Iranian * Old Irish * old lace * old lady * Old Latin * Old Low Franconian * Old Low Frankish * Old Low German * old maid * old man * old money * Old Nick * Old Norse * Old North French * Old Norwegian * old penny * Old Persian * * Old Prussian * old regime * Old Russian * olds * old salt * old saw * Old Saxon * Old Scandinavian * old school * Old Slavic * Old Slavonic * old sweat * Old Testament * old-time * old-timer * Old Welsh * old woman * Old World * old-world * over-old * same old same old * same old story * some old * you can't put an old head on young shouldersNoun
(usually used as plural)- A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.