Verb

(en verb)

(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)

I own this car.

(lb) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.

* 1902 , Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness , Tank Books 2007, p. 25:

I am sorry to own I began to worry then.

* 1913 ,

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.

(lb) To claim as one's own; to answer to.

* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.

(lb) To acknowledge or admit the possession or ownership of. (Ref 3)

(lb) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

I will own my enemies.

If he wins, he will own you.

(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.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To grant; give.

To admit; concede; acknowledge.

* 1611 , Shakespeare, The Tempest , v.:

Two of those fellows you must know and own .

* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. 1, ''Jocelin of Brakelond

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 recognise; acknowledge.

to own one as a son

To confess.

Verb

(en verb)

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}

To adopt (an idea) as one's own.

to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another

* Macaulay

rites borrowed from the ancients

* Milton

It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.

(arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.

(proscribed) To lend.

* {{quote-book, year=1951, year_published=1998, publisher=University of Wisconsin Press

, editor=James P. Leary, author=The Grenadiers, section=Milwaukee Talk, isbn=9780299160340, page=56 , title= Wisconsin Folklore , passage=“Rosie, borrow me your look looker, I bet my lips are all. Everytime I eat or drink, so quick I gotta fix ’em, yet.”}}

* {{quote-book, year=2005, publisher=Trafford Publishing, author=Gladys Blyth

, title= Summer at the Cannery , isbn=9781412025362, page=83 , passage=“Ryan, borrow me your lunch pail so we can fill it with blueberries. Susie can make us a pie.”}}

* {{quote-book, year=2006, publisher=Andres Rueda, author=Andrés Rueda, section=Chapter 13

, title= The Clawback , isbn=9781419647680, page=131 , passage=Georgi reached for his empty pockets. “Can you borrow me your telephone?”}}

* {{quote-book, year=2007, publisher=Lulu.com, author=Silvia Cecchini

, title= Bach Flowers Fairytales , isbn=9781847533203, page=7 , passage=“Gaia, could you borrow me your pencils ,(SIC) today, if you do not use them?”}}

To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

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To feign or counterfeit.

* Spenser

borrowed hair

* Shakespeare

the borrowed majesty of England