Own vs Particular - 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) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
Specific; discrete; concrete.
* Shakespeare
Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
* 1623 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , V.1:
Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
(comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
(legal) Containing a part only; limited.
(legal) Holding a particular estate.
(logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
(obsolete) A person's own individual case.
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*:Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it.
* Whole Duty of Man
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Own is a related term of particular.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between own and particular
is that own is (obsolete) to grant; give while particular is (obsolete) a person's own individual case.As adjectives the difference between own and particular
is that own is belonging to; possessed; proper to while particular is (obsolete) pertaining only to a part of something; partial.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 a noun particular is
a small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.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
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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:particular
English
Alternative forms
* perticular (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.
- We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.
- [Make] each particular hair to stand an end, / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
- I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.
- wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth
- or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere.
- My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.
- I didn't have any particular interest in the book.
- He brought no particular news.
- She was the particular belle of the party.
- He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.
- a full and particular account of an accident
- a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder
- a particular tenant
- (Blackstone)
- a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* generalDerived terms
* antiparticularism * antiparticularist * in particular * particular average * particular Church * particular integral * particularism * particularize * particularly * particularityExternal links
*Noun
(en noun)- temporal blessings, whether such as concern the publicor such as concern our particular