own vs serve

own

verb
  • To take responsibility for. 

  • To confess. 

  • To be very good. 

  • To virtually or figuratively enslave. 

  • To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny. 

  • To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. 

  • To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn. 

  • To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn. 

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

  • To admit; concede; acknowledge. 

  • To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of. 

  • To claim as one's own. 

  • To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset. 

  • To recognise; acknowledge. 

adj
  • Not shared. 

  • Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence. 

serve

verb
  • To perform (a public obligation). 

  • To be useful to; to meet the needs of. 

  • To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service. 

  • To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.). 

  • To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by. 

  • To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity. 

  • To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance. 

  • To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. 

  • To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc. 

  • To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person. 

  • To copulate with (of male animals); to cover. 

  • To present an attractive personal appearance. 

  • To usefully take the place as, instead of something else. 

  • To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing. 

  • To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something. 

  • To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence). 

  • To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance. 

  • To be in military service. 

  • To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.) 

  • To work, to operate (a weapon). 

  • To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc. 

noun
  • An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance). 

  • An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games. 

  • A portion of food or drink, a serving. 

How often have the words own and serve occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )