What's the difference between give and own?

Give


Definition:

  • (n.) To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.
  • (n.) To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.
  • (n.) To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.
  • (n.) To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.
  • (n.) To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.
  • (n.) To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
  • (n.) To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.
  • (n.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given.
  • (n.) To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  • (n.) To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  • (n.) To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.
  • (n.) To pledge; as, to give one's word.
  • (n.) To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.
  • (v. i.) To give a gift or gifts.
  • (v. i.) To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.
  • (v. i.) To become soft or moist.
  • (v. i.) To move; to recede.
  • (v. i.) To shed tears; to weep.
  • (v. i.) To have a misgiving.
  • (v. i.) To open; to lead.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
  • (2) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
  • (3) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (4) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
  • (5) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (6) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
  • (7) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
  • (8) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (9) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
  • (10) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
  • (11) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
  • (12) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
  • (13) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
  • (14) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
  • (15) The DDE also undergoes photocyclization to give dichlorofluorene derivatives.
  • (16) Similar results were obtained giving 1.2 g sodium valproate.
  • (17) Of the N-acetyl cysteamine derivatives tested, S-acetyl-N-acetyl cysteamine (at 10 mM) gives almost complete protection against inactivation whereas S-acetoacetyl-, S-beta-hydroxybutyryl-, and S-crotonyl-N-acetyl cysteamine thioesters exhibit either slight or no protection.
  • (18) Sinus lining cells give rise to a well defined entity of neoplasia which is proposed to be termed sinus lining cell reticulosarcoma.
  • (19) Tests were chosen to assess various aspects of monocyte function that give some insight into the host defense status and the degree of "activation" of the monocyte.
  • (20) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.

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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