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owned

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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.

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  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. Ranger Guard:

    Ranger Guard and Investigations is a Texas Owned and Operated Security Guard Company in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin, TX. Our President and founder, is a senior security executive with an additional 15 years experience working for the Israeli secret service. Contact us 24/7 for armed and unarmed security, mobile patrol services, loss prevention, gate guards, special events and more.

  2. Cathy McMorris Rodgers:

    Americans deserve to know the extent to which their privacy is jeopardized and their data is manipulated by ByteDance-owned TikTok’s relationship with China, what’s worse, we know Big Tech companies, like TikTok, use harmful algorithms to exploit children for profit and expose them to dangerous content online.

  3. Kenneth Shults:

    Our family has always owned and used firearms, no foster parent should have to forfeit their constitutional rights in order to be a foster parent.

  4. John Kirby:

    We’re calling this an object because that’s the best description we have right now, we don’t know who owns it – whether it’s state-owned or corporate-owned or privately-owned, we just don’t know.

  5. Stephen Comstock:

    Our industry has been working hard to increase transparency for more than a decade, but this rule could interfere with ongoing efforts by making U.S. firms less competitive against state-owned firms not covered by this rule.

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