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Borrow   /bˈɑrˌoʊ/   Listen
verb
Borrow  v. t.  (past & past part. borrowed; pres. part. borrowing)  
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.
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.
3.
To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. "Rites borrowed from the ancients." "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."
4.
To feign or counterfeit. "Borrowed hair." "The borrowed majesty of England."
5.
To receive; to take; to derive. "Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother."
To borrow trouble, to be needlessly troubled; to be overapprehensive.



noun
Borrow  n.  
1.
Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage. (Obs.) "Ye may retain as borrows my two priests."
2.
The act of borrowing. (Obs.) "Of your royal presence I'll adventure The borrow of a week."






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"Borrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... can afford to buy, or if you can borrow, ammeters and voltmeters of the proper range you should take the ...
— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills

... trifles, check selfish desires, go afield with the sheep and cattle, do not let your house-work make you a slave. PLAN some new outlet, do something different. Banish anger, forget self, help some lame dog across the street, borrow a poor child and go out to the zoo, lift up someone who is down, do strong things, avoid excitement, keep out of the crowd, check strife and antagonism, GET THE HAPPY HABIT. Think one thing at a time, let that be a ...
— Supreme Personality • Delmer Eugene Croft

... gaily conversing with his anxious guest, Little John whispered: "The knight has told the truth," and thereupon Robin exclaimed aloud: "Sir Knight, I will not take one penny from you; you may rather borrow of me if you have need of more money, for ten shillings is but a miserable sum for a knight. But tell me now, if it be your pleasure, how you come to be in such distress." As he looked inquiringly at the stranger, whose blush had faded once, only to be renewed as he found his word of honour doubted, ...
— Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race • Maud Isabel Ebbutt

... which neither I nor my curate had time to practise. So, in order to renew my intimacy, I sent him a bag of oatmeal and a couple of flitches of bacon, both of which he readily accepted, and came down to me on the following day to borrow three guineas. After attempting to evade him—for, in fact, I had not the money to spare—he at length succeeded in getting them from me, on the condition that he was to give my curate's horse and mine a month's grass, by ...
— Going To Maynooth - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton

... less of a Jew, but simply more of a Jew. Judaism to him is not a mere peculiar thing, but a peculiar great thing, and only by keeping it peculiar can he enhance its greatness. The Jewish genius cannot blend with that of America without loss to its individuality; however much it may borrow from America in outer accoutrement, in "wholesome ruddiness," "fair play," "polite address," and so forth—(and it should borrow what it can to improve its appearance), yet the accoutrement must remain ...
— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various


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