Found 3 items, similar to Borrow.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: borrow
meminjam, mencuplik, mengebon, ngebon
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: borrow
borrow
v 1: get temporarily;
“May I borrow your lawn mower?” [ant:
lend]
2: take up and practice as one's own [syn:
adopt,
take over,
take up]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Borrow
Borrow
\Bor"row\, n.
1. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a
hostage. [Obs.]
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Ye may retain as borrows my two priests. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. The act of borrowing. [Obs.]
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Of your royal presence I'll adventure
The borrow of a week. --Shak.
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Borrow
\Bor"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Borrowed; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Borrowing.] [OE. borwen, AS. borgian, fr. borg, borh,
pledge; akin to D. borg, G. borg; prob. fr. root of AS.
beorgan to protect. ?95. See 1st
Borough.]
1. 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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2. (Arith.) 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.
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3. To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style,
manner, or opinions of another.
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Rites borrowed from the ancients. --Macaulay.
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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. --Milton.
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4. To feign or counterfeit.
“Borrowed hair.” --Spenser.
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The borrowed majesty of England. --Shak.
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5. To receive; to take; to derive.
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Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother. --Shak.
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To borrow trouble, to be needlessly troubled; to be
overapprehensive.
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