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.

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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. Zep Lee:

   Growth in the number of our self-owned aircraft will be in the double-digits next year.

2. Justin Sherman:

   The Trump administration has taken almost like a whack-a-mole approach to dealing with these issues, because it seems that as soon as a Chinese company is in the news, all of a sudden that becomes the new target, it seems very unlikely that there is thinking going on about the longer term strategy, and much more likely that the focus instead is on this politically motivated attack on an application because it's a Chinese-owned app, even if there are real security questions.

3. Robert Boessenecker:

   That has already happened, and I have thanked them for their generosity, but explained that because museums serve as a center of research, that any fossil that enters the museum for a long-term period should be owned by the museum, if were going to put it on display, it has to be a fossil that has been donated or otherwise permanently accessioned [added] into our collection.

4. Jayadeva de Silva:

   Human beings are not "resources"to be owned by some one.That would be slavery.Human beings do possess resources.We called those "Humantalents".One human being cannot manage another human being.We can only manage their unique talents to make this world a better place for every one

5. Cheryl Rosner:

   Our research shows that the consumer does n’t understand naturally which company is owned by someone else. But what they see is the same price everywhere, whether the site is owned by Priceline or Expedia, we only use metadata as a starting point for negotiating, so the consumer always knows that there will always be a better price if one can be negotiated.

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