Definitions for owe
oʊowe

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. oweverb

   be obliged to pay or repay

2. oweverb

   be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense

   "This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory"

3. oweverb

   be in debt

   "She owes me $200"; "I still owe for the car"; "The thesis owes much to his adviser"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. oweverb

   To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.

2. oweverb

   To have debt, to be in debt.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Oweverb

   Etymology: eg aa, I owe, or I ought, Islandick.

   1. To be obliged to pay; to be indebted.

   I owe you much, and, like a witless youth,
   That which I owe is lost. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Ven.

   Let none seek needless causes to approve
   The saith they owe. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. ix.

   All your parts of pious duty done,
   You owe your Ormond nothing but a son. Dryden.

   Thou hast deserv’d more love than I can show,
   But ’tis thy fate to give, and mine to owe. Dryden.

   If, upon the general balance of trade, English merchants owe to foreigners one hundred thousand pounds, if commodities do not, our money must go out to pay it. John Locke.

   2. To be obliged to ascribe; to be obliged for.

   By me upheld, that he may know how frail
   His fall’n condition is, and to me owe
   All his deliv’rance, and to none but me. John Milton.

   3. To have from any thing as the consequence of a cause.

   O deem thy fall not ow’d to man’s decree,
   Jove hated Greece, and punish’d Greece in thee. Alexander Pope.

   4. To possess; to be the right owner of. For owe, which is, in this sense, obsolete, we now use own.

   Thou dost here usurp
   The name thou ow’st not, and hast put thyself
   Upon this island as a spy. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

   Fate, shew thy force; ourselves we do not owe;
   What is decreed must be; and be this so. William Shakespeare.

   Not poppy nor mandragora,
   Nor all the drowsy sirups of the world,
   Shall ever med’cine thee to that sweet sleep
   Which thou owed’st yesterday. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   If any happy eye
   This roving wanton shall descry,
   Let the finder surely know
   Mine is the wag; ’tis I that owe
   The winged wand’rer. Richard Crashaw.

   5. A practice has long prevailed among writers, to use owing, the active participle of owe, in a passive sense, for owed or due. Of this impropriety Bolinbroke was aware, and, having no quick sense of the force of English words, has used due, in the sense of consequence or imputation, which by other writers is only used of debt. We say, the money is due to me; Bolinbroke says, the effect is due to the cause.6. Consequential.

   This was owing to an indifference to the pleasures of life, and an aversion to the pomps of it. Francis Atterbury.

   7. Due as a debt.

   You are both too bold;
   I’ll teach you all what’s owing to your queen. Dryden.

   The debt, owing from one country to the other, cannot be paid without real effects sent thither to that value. John Locke.

   8. Imputable to, as an agent.

   If we estimate things, what in them is owing to nature, and what to labour, we shall find in most of them 99/100 to be on the account of labour. John Locke.

   The custom of particular impeachments was not limited any more than that of struggles between nobles and commons, the ruin of Greece was owing to the former, as that of Rome was to the latter. Jonathan Swift.

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1. OWE

   Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE) is a Wi-Fi standard which ensures that the communication between each pair of endpoints is protected from other endpoints. Unlike conventional Wi-Fi, it provides "Individualized Data Protection" such that data traffic between a client and access point is "individualized". Other clients can still sniff and record this traffic, but they can't decrypt it. OWE is an extension to IEEE 802.11. it is an encryption technique similar to that of Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) and is specified by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in RFC 8110 with devices certified as Wi-Fi Certified Enhanced Open by the Wi-Fi Alliance.

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1. owe

   To owe is to be under a moral, legal, or financial obligation to pay, repay or give something to someone. It typically refers to an outstanding debt or unfulfilled obligation that needs to be settled or met.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Owe

   ō, v.t. to possess or to be the owner of: to have what belongs to another: to be bound to pay: to be obliged for.—v.i. to be in debt.—Be owing, to be due or ascribed (to). [A.S. ágan, pres. indic. áh, pret. áhte, pa.p. ágen; Ice. eiga, Old High Ger. eigan, to possess.]

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1. OWE

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British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'owe' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2851

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'owe' in Verbs Frequency: #499

Anagrams for owe »

1. woe

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of owe in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of owe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of owe in a Sentence

1. Swami Krishnananda:

   The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

2. Greta Thunberg:

   Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people to give them hope. But I don't want your hope. I want you to panic.

3. Bill Clinton:

   We owe the people that sacrificed their lives here.

4. Michael Breen:

   As a veteran I can say I owe my life to our Afghan allies, it's not just interpreters. There are so many people who risked their lives -- children, families -- to keep us safe. And for 20 years American veterans looked our allies in the eyes and made those promises wearing the cloth of the nation.

5. Tim Kaine:

   We owe it to our troops serving abroad, troops who are engaged in war even as we think about recessing and leaving Washington on Dec. 11 for the holidays, to do our job and to have a debate and vote about the war that our Constitution demands.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=owe
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Owe
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=owe
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owe
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=owe