Borrow
WordNet
verb
(1) Get temporarily
"May I borrow your lawn mower?"
(2) Take up and practice as one's own
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
From , from . Cognate with German .
Verb
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- To copy a word from another language.
- 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.
Antonyms
give back (exchanging the transfer of ownership), lend (exchanging the owners), return (exchanging the transfer of ownership) carry (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of addition)Etymology 2
From , from (related to Etymology 1, above).
Noun
- A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
- A surety; someone standing bail.
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- 1819: ”where am I to find such a sum? If I sell the very pyx and candlesticks on the altar at Jorvaulx, I shall scarce raise the half; and it will be necessary for that purpose that I go to Jorvaulx myself; ye may retain as borrows my two priests.” — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
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