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bor·row    Audio Help   [bor-oh, bawr-oh] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object)
1.to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
2.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.
3.Arithmetic. (in subtraction) to take from one denomination and add to the next lower.
–verb (used without object)
4.to borrow something: Don't borrow unless you intend to repay.
5.Nautical.
a.to sail close to the wind; luff.
b.to sail close to the shore.
6.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.
7.borrow trouble, to do something that is unnecessary and may cause future harm or inconvenience.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME borowen, OE borgian to borrow, lend, deriv. of borg a pledge; akin to D borg a pledge, borgen to charge, give credit, G Borg credit, borgen to take on credit]

bor·row·a·ble, adjective
bor·row·er, noun

2. acquire, take, get; copy, pirate, plagiarize.
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Bor·row    Audio Help   [bor-oh, bawr-oh] Pronunciation Key
–noun
George, 1803–81, English traveler, writer, and student of languages, esp. Romany.
Bor·ro·vi·an    Audio Help   [buh-roh-vee-uhn] Pronunciation Key, adjective, noun
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bor·row    Audio Help   (bŏr'ō, bôr'ō)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   bor·rowed, bor·row·ing, bor·rows

v.   tr.
  1. To obtain or receive (something) on loan with the promise or understanding of returning it or its equivalent.
  2. To adopt or use as one's own: I borrowed your good idea.
  3. In subtraction, to take a unit from the next larger denomination in the minuend so as to make a number larger than the number to be subtracted.
  4. Linguistics To adopt (a word) from one language to use in another.

v.   intr.
To obtain or receive something.


[Middle English borwen, from Old English borgian; see bhergh-1 in Indo-European roots.]

bor'row·er n.
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borrow 
O.E. borgian "to lend," from P.Gmc. *borg "pledge," sense shifting in O.E. apparently on the sense of collateral deposited as security for something borrowed.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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borrow

verb
1. get temporarily; "May I borrow your lawn mower?" [ant: lend
2. take up and practice as one's own [syn: adopt

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borrow [ˈborəu] verb
to take (something, often money) temporarily with the intention of returning it
Example: He borrowed a book from the library.
Arabic: يَقْتَرِضُ، يَسْتَقْرِضُ
Chinese (Simplified):
Chinese (Traditional):
Czech: (vy)půjčit si
Danish: låne
Dutch: lenen
Estonian: laenama
Finnish: lainata
French: emprunter
German: leihen
Greek: δανείζομαι κτ.
Hungarian: kölcsönöz
Icelandic: fá að láni
Indonesian: meminjam
Italian: prendere in prestito*
Japanese: 借りる
Korean: 빌리다
Latvian: aizņemties
Lithuanian: pasiskolinti
Norwegian: låne
Polish: pożyczyć
Portuguese (Brazil): tomar emprestado
Portuguese (Portugal): pedir emprestado
Romanian: a împrumuta
Russian: одалживать
Slovak: požičať si
Slovenian: izposoditi si
Spanish: tomar prestado
Swedish: låna
Turkish: ödünç almak, borç almak
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Bor"ough\, n. [OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town, burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS. & D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth. ba['u]rgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save, defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill, mountain. [root]95. See Bury, v. t., and cf. Burrow, Burg, Bury, n., Burgess, Iceberg, Borrow, Harbor, Hauberk.]

1. In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. --Burrill. Erskine.

2. The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.

Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person.

Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a member to Parliament.
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Bor"ough\, n. [See Borrow.] (O. Eng. Law) (a) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other. (b) The pledge or surety thus given. --Blackstone. Tomlins.
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