BORROW

borrow

(verb) get temporarily; “May I borrow your lawn mower?”

adopt, borrow, take over, take up

(verb) take up and practice as one’s own

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

borrow (third-person singular simple present borrows, present participle borrowing, simple past and past participle borrowed)

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.

To adopt (an idea) as one's own.

(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.

(arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.

(Upper Midwestern United States, Malaysia, proscribed) To lend.

(double transitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

To feign or counterfeit.

(obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.

• Traditional, "Young Beichan" (Child ballad 53)

(informal) To receive (something) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.

Synonyms

• (adopt): adopt, use

Antonyms

• (receive temporarily): give back (exchanging the transfer of ownership), lend (exchanging the owners), return (exchanging the transfer of ownership)

• (in arithmetic): carry (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of addition)

Noun

borrow (plural borrows)

(golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.

(construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.

(programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.

Etymology 2

Noun

borrow (plural borrows)

(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.

(archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.

Proper noun

Borrow

A surname.

George Borrow wrote novels and travelogues based on his experiences travelling around Europe.

Source: Wiktionary

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Bor"row, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Borrowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Borrowing.] Etym: [OE. borwen, AS. borgian, fr. borg, borh, pledge; akin to D. borg, G. borg; prob. fr. root of AS. beorgan to protect. Borough.]

1. To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend.

2. (Arith.)

Definition: To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.

3. To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. Rites borrowed from the ancients. Macaulay. It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.

4. To feign or counterfeit. "Borrowed hair." Spenser. The borrowed majesty of England. Shak.

5. To receive; to take; to derive. Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother. Shak. To borrow trouble, to be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive.

Bor"row, n.

1. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage. [Obs.] Ye may retain as borrows my two priests. Sir W. Scott.

2. The act of borrowing. [Obs.] Of your royal presence I'll adventure The borrow of a week. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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