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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ownedadjective

    having an owner; often used in combination

    "state-owned railways"

Wikipedia

  1. owned

    Ownership is the state or fact of legal possession and control over property, which may be any asset, tangible or intangible. Ownership can involve multiple rights, collectively referred to as title, which may be separated and held by different parties. The process and mechanics of ownership are fairly complex: one can gain, transfer, and lose ownership of property in a number of ways. To acquire property one can purchase it with money, trade it for other property, win it in a bet, receive it as a gift, inherit it, find it, receive it as damages, earn it by doing work or performing services, make it, or homestead it. One can transfer or lose ownership of property by selling it for money, exchanging it for other property, giving it as a gift, misplacing it, or having it stripped from one's ownership through legal means such as eviction, foreclosure, seizure, or taking. Ownership is self-propagating in that the owner of any property will also own the economic benefits of that property.

ChatGPT

  1. owned

    Owned generally refers to the state or condition of possessing, having or holding property, rights or anything of value legally. It typically means having full control, rights and claim on something such as real estate, commodities, businesses, goods, etc. This can be either individually or jointly, indicating exclusive control and authority over the property or object.

Wikidata

  1. Owned

    Owned is a slang word that originated among 1990s hackers, where it referred to "rooting" or gaining administrative control over someone else's computer. The term's original usage was close to that of the traditional meaning of the word own – for instance, "I owned the network at MIT" indicated that the speaker had cracked the servers and had the same root-level privileges that the legitimate owner of the servers had. Some more examples are "I owned you" and "You got owned". Owned, a later variant, became more common in the late 1990s, as did the more abstract usage referring to any compromised security mechanism. By 1997, owned was regularly used in website defacements, and it subsequently spread to gaming circles, where it was used to refer to defeat in a game. For example, if a player makes a particularly impressive kill shot or wins a match by an appreciable margin in a multiplayer video game, it is not uncommon for him or her to say owned to the loser, as a manifestation of victory, a taunt, or provocation. Ownage has become a modern equivalent to a "Turkey shoot," such as an experienced faction versus a beginner or disadvantaged faction. In slang form, owned is the adjective owning is the verb and ownage is the noun.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. owned

    1. [cracker slang; often written “0wned”] Your condition when your machine has been cracked by a root exploit, and the attacker can do anything with it. This sense is occasionally used by hackers. 2. [gamers, IRC, crackers] To be dominated, controlled, mastered. For example, if you make a statement completely and utterly false, and someone else corrects it in a way that humiliates or removes you, you are said to “have been owned” by that person. When referring to games, “I own0r UT GOTYE” means that one has mastered Unreal Tournament, Game of the Year Edition to such a level that even the hardest AI characters are mere lunchmeat, and that no ordinary mortal player would even receive a point in competition. There are several spelling variants: 0wned, 0wn0r3d, even pwn0r3d. Hackers do not use this sense.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'owned' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2852

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'owned' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3310

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Anagrams for owned »

  1. Downe

  2. downe

  3. endow

  4. Woden

  5. woned

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of owned in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of owned in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of owned in a Sentence

  1. State Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno:

    Bearing in mind that there will be an expansion in infrastructure funding, there will be an increase in capital from state-owned banks.

  2. Kaitlyn Gagliano:

    I knew absolutely nothing (about watches), I grew up on digital and I knew how to tell time but it was never an everyday thing for me knowing about it, i was always on my phone. I never owned a watch. And now I'm going to build my own watch. So, it’s really cool.

  3. Natalie Wood:

    Oh goodness, if I wasn’t able to touch [that money], I wouldn’t have electricity, water, or a roof over my head, but you know, the thing a lot of us forget, myself included, is you put down first, last, and a security deposit and you’re in a place. But how about all the deposits necessary for water, gas, electricity — all of our things had to be put in storage. Even doing that we lost more than half of everything we owned… and finding a motel that would accept us with dogs was not easy. It was costly… We’re still coming to terms with everything, so we’re not pulled together by any stretch of the imagination, but we’re trying. I’m trying very hard to make it a home.

  4. William Garcia Pinto Coelho:

    Vale, with the support of TUV SUD, produced a large amount of technical information about ...various dams owned and managed by Vale, that were recognized, I repeat, internally recognized, as dams with an unacceptable risk profile.

  5. Sonja Opper:

    It is a strategy that prioritizes short-term goals of political control over medium-term growth and development objectives, state-owned enterprises will not be able to fill the gap given weaker profit incentives and tighter control structures.

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