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borrow
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?r??, IPA(key): /?b????/
- (General American) enPR: bär??, IPA(key): /?b??o?/
- (Canada) enPR: bôr??, IPA(key): /?b??o?/
- Rhymes: -????
Etymology 1
From Middle English borwen, bor?ien, Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-Germanic *burg?n? (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erg?- (“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.
Alternative forms
- boro (Jamaican English)
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.
- to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
- (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, West Midlands, 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)
- 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.
- 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)
Derived terms
- borrowed time
- borrower
Translations
Noun
borrow (plural borrows)
- (golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
- This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
- 1979, The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin
- 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.
- 1979, The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin
- (programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English borwe, borgh, from Old English borh, borg, from Proto-Germanic *burg?n? (“to borrow, lend”) (related to Etymology 1, above).
Noun
borrow (plural borrows)
- (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
- (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
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smoocher
English
Etymology
smooch +? -er
Noun
smoocher (plural smoochers)
- Someone who smooches (is overly affectionate.)
- Someone who borrows trivial items without returning them; a petty thief.
- An annoyingly nosy person; a tag-along.
Anagrams
- moochers
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