Timeline for the meaning of the word 'owe' in a sentence
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| Jan 3, 2015 at 0:51 | history | edited | Barmar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
set apart the senses from examples
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| Jan 2, 2015 at 1:14 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | It's actually sense 5 above (which needs expanding: to obtain (intransitive) or to be successful because of the good effect, influence or causative force of something or someone). The weather in Yellowstone owes much to the funnelling effect of the Tetons. | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 20:11 | answer | added | Hot Licks | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 20:08 | comment | added | Hot Licks | None of the above. In this sense it basically means "inherits" -- it derives it's traits from the stated factors. | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 18:42 | answer | added | wisty | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 18:28 | history | asked | twoyoung | CC BY-SA 3.0 |