Word Finder - owe

definition

To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.

definition

To have debt; to be in debt.

I think you owe me an explanation.

I owe you an apology.

I owe you some money.

I owe you more than you could ever know.

You owe me for that.

I don't owe you anything.

I guess I owe them a lot more than bread then.

Do I owe you anything more?

I owe you that, Gabriel.

I think you owe his mother an apology.

I owe this passion to my high school friend Jason.

I will owe them my life, A'Ran said.

I don't know anything about the case, but I know it would take a room full of CPA's to figure out how many cups of coffee you guys owe each other.

Indeed, I owe to her loving wisdom all that was bright and good in my long night.

If this solution works, you owe me a favor of my choosing.

You owe me some explanations.

How do you figure I owe you anything?

I owe you my life.

You still owe me for the time you were in Europe.

You owe Gabriel one, the silver- haired man said.

I wanted him to owe me.

The members of both chambers owe their election to universal suffrage; but the Senate is not elected directly by the people and the Chamber of Deputies is.

Besides this most important contribution to the general fabric of dynamical science, we owe to Lagrange several minor theorems of great elegance, - among which may be mentioned his theorem that the kinetic energy imparted by given impulses to a material system under given constraints is a maximum.

The town is supposed to owe its origin to the foundation of a convent on the spot by Itta or Iduberge, wife of Pippin of Landen.

Though not endowed with the strength and originality of mind that characterized Tyndale's work, Coverdale showed great discrimination in the handling and use of his authorities, and moreover a certain delicacy and happy ease in his rendering of the Biblical text, to which we owe not a few of the beautiful expressions of our present Bible.

I owe it to Jake.

I'll owe you two.

But I do owe you for the joy of pregnancy that I took away from you.

I'll owe you one.

You owe me this, if nothing else!

You owe him your life.

If our army is well organized and strong and has withdrawn to Drissa without suffering any defeats, we owe this entirely to Barclay.

Equity loans do not eliminate the debt you owe.

Many states will suspend the licenses of drivers who are found to owe a substantial amount of back child support.

If you do your family this favor, they will owe you one.

They owe their origin to M'.

To him we owe the distinction between canonical and apocryphal writings; in the Prologus Galeatus prefixed to his version of Samuel and Kings, he says that the church reads the Apocrypha "for the edification of the people, not for confirming the authority of ecclesiastical doctrines."

Of the principal later writers whose works are extant, and to whom we owe what little knowledge we possess of the labours of their predecessors, mention will be made hereafter.

Machiavelli now entered upon a period of life to which we owe the great works that have rendered his name immortal.

To Weizsacker we owe the first statement of this theory.

For many of the facts, the discovery of which we owe to the literary critics, have made the assumption of an absolute unity in the details of the Apocalypse a practical impossibility.

For the elucidation of these foreign elements a new method - the traditional-historical - is necessary, and to the brilliant scholar Gunkel we owe its origination.

They owe their origin to depressions of the earth's crust of no very wide extent and not running very far into the continental mass, and geologically they are of recent age and still subject to change.

In these respects they contrast with the great oceans which owe their origin to the most extensive and the profoundest depressions of the crust, date back at least to Mesozoic times, and have perhaps remained permanently in their present position from still remoter ages.

Harrar is believed to owe its foundation to Arab immigrants from the Yemen in the 7th century of the Christian era.

In the vicinity of Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika, sandstones and shales of Lower Karroo age and yielding seams of coal are considered to owe their position and preservation to being let down by rift faults into hollows of the crystalline rocks.

To him the people of Italy owe a great debt, for if he failed in his object he at least materialized the idea of the Risorgimento in a practical shape, and the charges which the Republicans and demagogues brought against him were monstrously unjust.

To them we owe not merely the possession of the greatest works of Greek intellect, but the possession of them in a readable state.

The most celebrated critics were Zenodotus; Aristophanes of Byzantium, to whom we owe the theory of Greek accents; Crates of Mallus; and Aristarchus of Samothrace, confessedly the coryphaeus of criticism.

The founder of the mathematical school was the celebrated Euclid (Eucleides); among its scholars were Archimedes; Apollonius of Perga, author of a treatise on Conic Sections; Eratosthenes, to whom we owe the first measurement of the earth; and Hipparchus, the founder of the epicyclical theory of the heavens, afterwards called the Ptolemaic system, from its most famous expositor, Claudius Ptolemaeus.