The difference between Best and Own
When used as verbs, best means to surpass in skill or achievement, whereas own means to have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital).
When used as adjectives, best means ., whereas own means belonging to.
Best is also noun with the meaning: the supreme effort one can make, or has made.
check bellow for the other definitions of Best and Own
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Best as an adjective:
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Examples:
"I can either be your best friend or your worst enemy."
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Best as an adjective:
Most; largest.
Examples:
"Unpacking took the best part of a week."
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Best as an adverb:
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Best as an adverb:
To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
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Best as a noun (uncountable):
The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
Examples:
"I did my best."
"My personal best in that race is eighteen minutes, four seconds."
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Best as a noun (uncountable):
One's best behavior.
Examples:
"I was somewhat distant lately, and my lady promised me head every Tuesday of the week when I'm nice to her, so I better be on my best."
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Best as a noun (countable):
The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
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Best as a verb:
To surpass in skill or achievement.
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Best as a verb (transitive):
To beat in a contest
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
Examples:
"I own this car."
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
Examples:
"The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon."
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
Examples:
"I will own my enemies."
"If he wins, he will own you."
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To virtually or figuratively enslave.
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Own as a verb (online gaming, slang):
To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled .
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Own as a verb (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.
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Own as an adjective:
Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
Examples:
"They went that way, but we need to find our own."
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Own as an adjective (obsolete):
Peculiar, domestic.
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Own as an adjective (obsolete):
Not foreign.
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Own as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To grant; give.
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Own as a verb (intransitive):
To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To admit; concede; acknowledge.
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To answer to.
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To recognise; acknowledge.
Examples:
"to own one as a son"
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Own as a verb (transitive):
To claim as one's own.
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Own as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):
To confess.