Meaning of 'borrow'
Meaning of 'borrow' (Webster Dictionary)
- Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a
hostage.
- The act of borrowing. - 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.
- 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.
- To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To receive; to take; to derive.
- The act of borrowing. - 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.
- 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.
- To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To receive; to take; to derive.
Meaning of 'borrow' (Princeton's WordNet)
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