different between own vs believe

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???n/
• (US) enPR: ?n, IPA^(key): /?o?n/
• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /?u?/
• Rhymes: -??n

Etymology 1

From Middle English owen, a?en, from Old English ?gen (“own, proper, peculiar”), from Proto-West Germanic *aigan (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey?- (“to have, possess”).

Alternative forms

• 'n (informal contraction)

Adjective

own

2. Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
3. Not shared

4. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
5. (obsolete) Not foreign.

Usage notes

• Often used for implication of ownership, often with emphasis. In modern usage, it always follows a possessive determiner, or a noun in the possessive case.

Derived terms

• be one's own worst enemy
• come into one's own
• hoist by one's own petard
• one's own boss
• on one's own

Translations

Etymology 2

A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English ?gnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.

Verb

own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)

1. (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.

   I own this car.

2. (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.

3. (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

   I will own my enemies.

   If he wins, he will own you.

4. (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
5. (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
6. (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
7. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5

     They learned how perfectly peaceful the home could be. And they almost regretted—though none of them would have owned to such callousness—that their father was soon coming back.

8. (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
   • 1611, Shakespeare, The Tempest, v.:

     Two of those fellows you must know and own.

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 1, Jocelin of Brakelond

     It must be owned, the good Jocelin, spite of his beautiful childlike character, is but an altogether imperfect 'mirror' of these old-world things!

9. (transitive) To take responsibility for.
10. (transitive) To answer to.
11. (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.

    to own one as a son

12. (transitive) To claim as one's own.
13. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To confess.

Synonyms

• (have rightful possession of): to possess
• (defeat): beat, defeat, overcome, overthrow, vanquish, have, take, best

Antonyms

• (admit): disown

Derived terms

Translations

References

• 1896, Universal Dictionary of the English Language [UDEL], v3 p3429:

  To possess by right; to have the right of property in; to have the legal right or rightful title to.

• 1896, ibid., UDEL
• 1896, ibid., UDEL
• 1896, ibid., UDEL

Anagrams

• NOW, NWO, now, won

Portuguese

Interjection

own

1. aw (used to express affection)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:own.

English

Alternative forms

• beleeve (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English beleven, bileven, from Old English bel?efan (“to believe”), a later variant to Proto-Germanic *galaubijan? (“to have faith, believe”). Cognate with Scots beleve (“to believe”). Compare Old English ?el?efan (“to be dear to; believe, trust”), Old English ?el?afa (“belief, faith, confidence, trust”), Old English l?of ("dear, valued, beloved, pleasant, agreeable"; > English lief). Related also to North Frisian leauwjen (“to believe”), West Frisian leauwe (“to believe”), Dutch geloven (“to believe”), German glauben (“to believe”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (galaubjan, “to hold dear, valuable, or satisfactory, approve of, believe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??li?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??liv/, /bi-/, /b?-/
• Rhymes: -i?v
• Hyphenation: be?lieve

Verb

believe (third-person singular simple present believes, present participle believing, simple past and past participle believed)

1. (transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
2. (transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.

3. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
4. (transitive) To opine, think, reckon

   Do you think this is good?

   Hmm, I believe it's okay.

Antonyms

• disbelieve

Usage notes

• The transitive verb believe and the phrasal verb believe in are similar but can have very different implications.
  • To “believe” someone or something means to accept specific pieces of information as truth: believe the news, believe the lead witness. To “believe a complete stranger” means to accept a stranger's story with little evidence.
  • To “believe in” someone or something means to hold confidence and trust in that person or concept: believe in liberty, believe in God. To “believe in one's fellow man” means to place trust and confidence in mankind.
• Meanings sometimes overlap. To believe in a religious text would also require affirming the truth of at least the major tenets. To believe a religious text might likewise imply placing one's confidence and trust in it, in addition to accepting its statements as facts.
• This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs

Derived terms

Related terms

• belief
• disbelief

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

believe

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of believen

Anagrams

• beviele