Definitions for owned
owned

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. owned(adj)

   having an owner; often used in combination

   "state-owned railways"

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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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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

Anagrams for owned »

1. Downe, downe, endow, Woden, woned

2. Downe

3. Endow

How to pronounce owned?

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   Alex

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   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. James Kuffner:

   It will take more time to achieve 'Level 4' for a personally-owned vehicle, level 4 is really what we're striving for to first appear in mobility as a service.

2. Ben Affleck:

   I didn't want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed. The very thought left a bad taste in my mouth, i regret my initial thoughts that the issue of slavery not be included in the story.

3. Ted Osborn:

   Banks are under increased pressure from regulators to lower their NPL ratios, more loans are being offloaded to state-owned asset management companies and other players in the market.

4. Outgoing Chief Executive Hereda:

   My personal opinion? I am against it, there's still room for a fully-owned state bank in Brazil and the need for a public policy agent to preserve equilibrium in the system is huge.

5. Arash Ghahreman:

   He was pursuing the American dream and, but for his agreeing to help his friend who he believed owned a Dubai-based company, he wouldn't be in this situation.

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