ALL meanings of borrow
bor·row
B b - verb borrow If you borrow something that belongs to someone else, you take it or use it for a period of time, usually with their permission. 3
- verb borrow If you borrow money from someone or from a bank, they give it to you and you agree to pay it back at some time in the future. 3
- verb borrow If you borrow a book from a library, you take it away for a fixed period of time. 3
- verb borrow If you borrow something such as a word or an idea from another language or from another person's work, you use it in your own language or work. 3
- verb borrow to obtain or receive (something, such as money) on loan for temporary use, intending to give it, or something equivalent or identical, back to the lender 3
- verb borrow to adopt (ideas, words, etc) from another source; appropriate 3
- verb borrow to lend 3
- verb borrow to putt the ball uphill of the direct path to the hole 3
- verb borrow (of a ball) to deviate from a straight path because of the slope of the ground 3
- noun borrow a deviation of a ball from a straight path because of the slope of the ground 3
- noun borrow material dug from a borrow pit to provide fill at another 3
- noun borrow George (Henry). 1803–81, English traveller and writer. His best-known works are the semiautobiographical novels of Gypsy life and language, Lavengro (1851) and its sequel The Romany Rye (1857) 3
- verb transitive borrow to take or receive (something) with the understanding that one will return it or an equivalent 3
- verb transitive borrow to adopt or take over (something) as one's own 3
- verb transitive borrow to adopt and naturalize (a word, etc.) from another language 3
- verb transitive borrow in subtraction, to take (a unit of ten) from the next higher place in the minuend and add it to the next lower place: done when the number to be subtracted in the subtrahend is greater than the corresponding number in the minuend 3
- verb with object borrow to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower. 1
- verb with object borrow to use, appropriate, or introduce from another source or from a foreign source: to borrow an idea from the opposition; to borrow a word from French. 1
- verb with object borrow Arithmetic. (in subtraction) to take from one denomination and add to the next lower. 1
- verb without object borrow to borrow something: Don't borrow unless you intend to repay. 1
- verb without object borrow Nautical. to sail close to the wind; luff. to sail close to the shore. 1
- verb without object borrow Golf. to putt on other than a direct line from the lie of the ball to the hole, to compensate for the incline or roll of the green. 1
- idioms borrow borrow trouble, to do something that is unnecessary and may cause future harm or inconvenience. 1
- noun borrow George, 1803–81, English traveler, writer, and student of languages, especially Romany. 1
- noun borrow (golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant. 0
- noun borrow (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee. 0
- noun borrow (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail. 0
- verb borrow To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. 0
- verb borrow To adopt (an idea) as one's own. 0
- verb borrow (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language. 0
- verb borrow (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. 0
- verb borrow (proscribed) To lend. 0
- verb borrow (double transitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone). 0
- verb borrow To feign or counterfeit. 0