BORROW
\bˈɒɹə͡ʊ], \bˈɒɹəʊ], \b_ˈɒ_ɹ_əʊ]\
Definitions of BORROW
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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To feign or counterfeit.
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To receive; to take; to derive.
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Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
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The act of borrowing.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To feign or counterfeit.
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To receive; to take; to derive.
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Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
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The act of borrowing.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To obtain the use of, for a time, with the understanding that it is to be returned; to take; to copy; to adopt; as, almost all republics borrow their constitutions from the United States; in arithmetical subtraction, to take a number from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower.
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To receive something with the intention of returning it.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
