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To make something one's own

Turkish translation: bir şeyi kendisiyle özdeşleştirmek

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English term or phrase:To make something one\'s own
Turkish translation:bir şeyi kendisiyle özdeşleştirmek
Entered by: Hellinas

20:15 May 20, 2014
English to Turkish translations [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: To make something one's own
If you make a piece of music, etc. (all) your own, you make it famous by the way you perform it. E.g.:-
'When Elling makes a song his own, he is performing the song in his own particular style.'
And:-
'Businesses such as Base3 are making HP Latex Technologies their own, creating new profit opportunities in a fast-changing market'.
To make a song/anything else your own is to put your own interpretation on it, to stamp it as yours by singing it in a different way from the original or from what anyone else has performed it. Of a business it means your product is so special that your trade name is the first name that people think of when a product is mentioned.
Hellinas
Local time: 22:21
bir şeyi kendisiyle özdeşleştirmek
Explanation:
http://goo.gl/Dnuy22
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Recep Kurt
Türkiye
Local time: 00:21
Grading comment
Recep's answer is the better one: 'to make something one's own is to make something famous by associating a product or song or whatever in people's minds with your name. To re- appropriate is to seize and reassign or to appropriate again.
appropriate again.
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Summary of answers provided
5bir şeyi kendisiyle özdeşleştirmek
Recep Kurt
4Kendine maletmek
Salih YILDIRIM


  

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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
to make something one's own
bir şeyi kendisiyle özdeşleştirmek


Explanation:
http://goo.gl/Dnuy22

Recep Kurt
Türkiye
Local time: 00:21
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
PRO pts in category: 31
Grading comment
Recep's answer is the better one: 'to make something one's own is to make something famous by associating a product or song or whatever in people's minds with your name. To re- appropriate is to seize and reassign or to appropriate again.
appropriate again.
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to make something one's own
Kendine maletmek


Explanation:
Meaning what is meant by asker feels like "Reappropriation" to me.

Salih YILDIRIM
United States
Local time: 17:21
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
PRO pts in category: 7
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