The difference between Have and Own
When used as verbs, have means to possess, own, hold, whereas own means to have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital).
Have is also noun with the meaning: a wealthy or privileged person.
Own is also adjective with the meaning: belonging to.
check bellow for the other definitions of Have and Own
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To possess, own, hold.
Examples:
"I have a house and a car."
"Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!"
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
Examples:
"I have two sisters."
"I have a lot of work to do."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
Examples:
"I have breakfast at six o'clock."
"Can I have a look at that?"
"I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
Examples:
"What class do you have right now? I have English."
"Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day."
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Have as a verb (auxiliary verb, taking a [[past participle]]):
Examples:
"I have already eaten today."
"I had already eaten."
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Have as a verb (auxiliary verb, taking a [[w:Infinitive, to-infinitive]]):
See have to.
Examples:
"I have to go."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To give birth to.
Examples:
"The couple always wanted to have children."
"My wife is having the baby right now!"
"My mother had me when she was 25."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To engage in sexual intercourse with.
Examples:
"He's always bragging about how many women he's had."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To accept as a romantic partner.
Examples:
"Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me."
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Have as a verb:
To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
Examples:
"They had me feed their dog while they were out of town."
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Have as a verb:
To cause to be.
Examples:
"He had him arrested for trespassing."
"The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears."
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Have as a verb:
To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
Examples:
"The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week."
"I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice."
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Have as a verb:
To depict as being.
Examples:
"Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening."
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Have as a verb:
Examples:
"We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?"
"Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?"
"lb UK usage ''He has some money, hasn't he?"
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Have as a verb (British, slang):
To defeat in a fight; take.
Examples:
"I could have him!"
"I'm gonna have you!"
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Have as a verb (dated):
To be able to speak a language.
Examples:
"I have no German''."
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Have as a verb:
To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Examples:
"Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before."
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Have as a verb:
To be afflicted with, suffer from.
Examples:
"He had a cold last week."
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Have as a verb:
To experience, go through, undergo.
Examples:
"We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that."
"He had surgery on his hip yesterday."
"I'm having the time of my life!"
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Have as a verb:
To trick, to deceive.
Examples:
"You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke."
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Have as a verb (transitive, often with present participle):
To allow; to tolerate.
Examples:
"The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it."
"I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night."
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Have as a verb (transitive, often used in the negative):
To believe, buy, be taken in by.
Examples:
"I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it."
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Examples:
"Thank you for having me!"
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Have as a verb (transitive):
To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
Examples:
"What do you have for problem two?"
"I have two contacts on my scope."
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Have as a verb (transitive, of a jury):
To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
Examples:
"We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon."
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Have as a noun:
A wealthy or privileged person.
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Have as a noun (uncommon):
One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
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Have as a noun (AU, NZ, informal):
A fraud or deception; something misleading.
Examples:
"They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have."
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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.