borrow

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bŏrʹō; IPA(key): /ˈbɒɹ.əʊ/ (General American) enPR: bärʹō; IPA(key): /ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/ (Canada) enPR: bôrʹo, bōrʹō; IPA(key): [ˈbɔ(ː)ɹo(ʊ)], [ˈboːɹo(ʊ)] Rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ Hyphenation: bor‧row === Etymology 1 === From Middle English borwen, borȝien, Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-West Germanic *borgōn, from Proto-Germanic *burgōną (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to take care”). Cognate with Dutch borgen (“to borrow, trust”), German borgen (“to borrow, lend”), Danish borge (“to vouch”). Related to Old English beorgan (“to save, preserve”). More at bury. ==== Alternative forms ==== boro (Jamaican English) ==== Verb ==== borrow (third-person singular simple present borrows, present participle borrowing, simple past and past participle borrowed) To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time. To adopt (an idea) as one's own. (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language. (arithmetic) 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. (Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend. (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone). To feign or counterfeit. (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison. Traditional, "Young Beichan" (Child ballad 53) But if ony maiden would borrow me, I would wed her wi' a ring, And a' my land and a' my houses, They should a' be at her command. (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it. (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc. (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Synonyms ===== (adopt): adopt, use ===== Antonyms ===== (antonym(s) of “receive temporarily”): give back (exchanging the transfer of ownership), lend (exchanging the owners), return (exchanging the transfer of ownership) (antonym(s) of “in arithmetic”): carry (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of addition) ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== borrow (countable and uncountable, plural borrows) (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant. (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit. (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English borwe, borgh, from Old English borh, borg, from Proto-West Germanic *borgōn, from Proto-Germanic *burgōną (“to borrow, lend”) (related to Etymology 1, above). ==== Noun ==== borrow (plural borrows) (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee. (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.