borrow
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arithmetic
business
civil-engineering
computing
construction
engineering
golf
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
manufacturing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English borwen, from Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-West Germanic *borgōn, from Proto-Germanic *burgōną (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to take care”).
Cognate with Dutch borgen (“to borrow, trust”), German borgen (“to borrow, lend”), Danish borge (“to vouch”). Related to Old English beorgan (“to save, preserve”). More at bury.
Inflected forms:
form: borrows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: borrowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: borrowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: borrowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: borrow
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: borrow
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: borrowed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: borrow
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: borrowest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: borrowed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: borrowedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: borrows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: borroweth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: borrowed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: borrow
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: borrowed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: borrow
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: borrowed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: borrow
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: borrowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: borrowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boro
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Jamaica
form: borrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boro
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Jamaica
Senses:
gloss: To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
pos: verb
examples: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
gloss: To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
pos: verb
gloss: To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
pos: verb
examples: to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
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.
Dryden’s form is of course borrowed from the ancients
gloss: To adopt a word from another language.
pos: verb
examples: Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military abbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: To lend.
pos: verb
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
West-Midlands
proscribed
examples: “Rosie, borrow me your look looker, I bet my lips are all. Everytime^([sic]) I eat or drink, so quick I gotta fix ’em, yet.”
Johari Salleh: Ya, ya. Better not waste time. Must prepare, tomorrow morning got inspection.
Teo Ah Beng: Ya lah, must kiwi [polish] the boots. Can borrow me your cloth?
Krishnamoorthy: Ya, no problem. You better kiwi quickly. 11 pm lights off. […]
Samson, with all the cunning of a rhetorical master, cornered him. 'Then can my young son borrow me his old rifle?'
In a bank they borrow you the money at very low rates and if you don't take it back, you suffer the consequences in a jail sentence and there's a certain procedure it goes through.
The next week she came back and she said to me and my husband, "If I borrow you the money to buy a little house do you think you can pay me back like rent?"
“Ryan, borrow me your lunch pail so we can fill it with blueberries. Susie can make us a pie.”
Georgi reached for his empty pockets. “Can you borrow me your telephone?”
“Gaia, could you borrow me your pencils ,^([sic]) today, if you do not use them?”
gloss: To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: You must borrow me Garagantua's mouth first: 'tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's size: To say, ay, and no, to these particulars, is more than to answer in a catechism.
Yes, my lord, he told me this in my own house; and I told him he might go to esquire Tindal, and I lent him eighteen pence, and borrowed him a horse in the town.
I went out and borrowed him a night cap; put him my night shirt on, and wrapped him in a blanket.
My folks couldn't afford a guitar, so my dad borrowed me a mandolin one time, and I was just learning to play it pretty good and the guy that he borrowed it from wanted it back.
George Lightfoot seemed to have forgotten he was meant to be a Lost Sheep, and turned up as the Tin Man, but I forgave him, because he'd managed to borrow me a divine brass crazier from one of his bishop friends.
gloss: To feign or counterfeit.
pos: verb
examples: borrowed hair
the borrowed majesty of England
gloss: To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
pos: verb
examples: But if ony maiden would borrow me,
I would wed her wi' a ring,
And a' my land and a' my houses,
They should a' be at her command.
gloss: To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Can I borrow a sheet of paper?
gloss: To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: John, can I borrow you for a second? I need your help with the copier.
gloss: To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
pos: verb
gloss: Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.
The amount of borrow, as we term it, that must be taken from the side of any particular slope is entirely a matter of mathematical calculation, […]
[…] slippery contours, so that in making a side hill putt more than the usual amount of borrow had to be considered.
gloss: A borrow pit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As previously indicated, slurry used for construction of the slurry cutoff trench at Beaver Creek Dam was produced with natural clays and clay tills from local borrows.
gloss: In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If we currently have any borrows of a value, we can't mutably borrow it into self, nor can we move it (because that would invalidate the existing borrows).
Synonyms: borrow
creance
desume
scunge
Antonyms: give back
lend
return
carry
buy
take
Related words: borrower
Derived words: borrowability
borrowable
borrow a leaf out of someone's book
Borrowdale
borrowed time
borrowee
borrower
borrow from Peter to pay Paul
borrowing days
borrow roll
borrow trouble
inborrow
nonborrowing
outborrow
overborrow
preborrowing
reborrow
unborrowing
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