What's the difference between aught and own?

Aught


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Aucht
  • (n.) Anything; any part.
  • (adv.) At all; in any degree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The People’s Daily says that Beijing’s most recent weather forecast -- a bitter cold weekend -- has aught to do with the end of the Mayan calendar.
  • (2) Family planning is included in the schools at all levels but sex education is t aught only at upper school levels via courses in biology, anatomy, and physiology.
  • (3) All cases selected by this method aught to be examined by means of right heart catheterization with the floating technic.
  • (4) Chicago Fire Dan Martin , Whiskey Brothers Aught Five and Hot Time in Old Town : Best game: 3-2 win over the Revs at Toyota Park.
  • (5) View the wither’d Beldam’s face; Can thy keen inspection trace Aught of Humanity’s sweet, melting grace?
  • (6) Well, sort of: the MIT-educated scientist invented electric series-elastic actuators, the technology that carried the bipedal “dinosaur” robots that wowed the scientific community in the early aughts.
  • (7) Two US marines are facing criminal charges for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, after their actions were c aught on a video that circulated widely on the internet , the US military said on Monday.
  • (8) Trump has openly bragged about the fact that he sued a former New York Times reporter in the early aughts for the purpose of trying to hit the reporter involved financially.
  • (9) Both of these guys are extremely transactional,” said Lloyd Grove, who wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News, the Post’s rival publication, in the early to mid-aughts.

Own


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.
  • (a.) Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; -- most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.
  • (a.) To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.

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