Borrow

What do we mean by borrow?

To obtain or receive (something) on loan with the promise or understanding of returning it or its equivalent. intransitive verb

To adopt or use as one's own. intransitive verb

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. intransitive verb

To adopt (a word) from one language for use in another. intransitive verb

To borrow something. intransitive verb

To adopt words from one language for use in another. intransitive verb

(borrow trouble) To take an unnecessary action that will probably engender adverse effects. idiom

To take or obtain (a thing) on pledge given for its return, or without pledge, but on the understanding that the thing obtained is to be returned, or an equivalent of the same kind is to be substituted for it; hence, to obtain the temporary use of: with of or from (formerly at): as, to borrow a book from a friend; to borrow money of a stranger.

To take or receive gratuitously from another or from a foreign source and apply to one's own use; adopt; appropriate; by euphemism, to steal or plagiarize: as, to borrow aid; English has many borrowed words; to borrow an author's style, ideas, or language.

To assume or usurp, as something counterfeit, feigned, or not real; assume out of some pretense.

To be surety for; hence, to redeem; ransom.

To practise borrowing; take or receive loans; appropriate to one's self what belongs to another or others: as, I neither borrow nor lend; he borrows freely from other authors.

An obsolete form of borough. noun

Nautical, to approach either land or the wind closely.

A term used specifically in organ-building: of a pipe which improperly takes the wind from another and sounds at the latter's expense; of a stop or set of pipes which is incomplete in itself, but which is filled out by using some of the pipes of another stop or set: within certain limits the latter arrangement is entirely legitimate, since it renders possible the use of the same pipes in two distinct connections.

In golf, when putting across sloping ground, to play the ball a little up the slope to counteract its effect.

A pledge or surety; bail; security: applied both to the thing given as security and to the person giving it: as, “with baile nor borrowe,” noun

A borrowing; the act of borrowing. noun

Cost; expense. noun

A tithing; a frank-pledge. noun

Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.

A borrow pit.

In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.

To take from another with or without permission. Urban Dictionary

To steal something you want from an establishment (regardless of your current financial situation). Urban Dictionary

A word that once meant lend, and now means give it to me. Urban Dictionary

When you ask someone to let you use something and know damn well you not giving it back Urban Dictionary

A borrower is a small person ,about 2 inches tall, who lives in the walls of humans and borrows things that they need to survive. If they are seen by said human, they must leave that house and find a new host. Urban Dictionary

The act of borrowing a product (typically software), but shall return it upon a personal request of a company. Urban Dictionary

Used to mean "lend", as in the sentence, "lend me". Used in Gloucestershire, UK. Urban Dictionary

Word used by an ignorant person when asking you to loan them something. Urban Dictionary

When someone asks you to lend them something. Normally they'll return it, But if they don't, they'll usually lie n say "I'll give it to you tomorrow dude" Urban Dictionary

To have stolen an item from a friend or colleague with the intention of returning it at a later date. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to borrow:
borrow, sorrow, burrow, barrow, morrow, bobrow, orrow, borror, borro.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word borrow:
lend, borrowing, repay, lender, steal, collateral, pits, money, loans, sums, lending, invest, borrowed, debt, loan, buy, libraries, securities, funds, bonds, banks, currency, finance, pay, clothes, rates, overnight, heavily, pit, treasury, credit, dollar, library, books, billion, fund, cash, equity, fees, interest, rate, spend, phrase, purchase, fill, sum, copy.

Words that rhyme with borrow:
go, blow, show, know, forego, snow, so, throw, flow, though, ratio, pro, hello, quo, grow, row, sew, apropos, mow, bio, low, forgo, shadow, o, woe, crow, portfolio, no, although, potato, bestow, yoe, toe, undergo, studio, hoe, glow, owe, joe, aglow, co, escrow, indigo, willow, dough, espresso, archipelago, plateau, cameo, slow, rainbow, beau, tomato, doe, adagio, ho, foe, otto, coco, status quo, fallow, glo, lo, below, radio, hydro, vertigo, manifesto, tow, meadow, tomorrow, patio, veto, overthrow, audio, plough, tempo, torso, roe, calypso, aficionado, micro, virago, mo, rhino, winnow, photo, tornado, buffalo, quid pro quo, portico, tableau, whoa, dado, torpedo, rococo, gusto, grotto, calico, solo.

Adjectives that are often used to describe borrow:
young, old, great, late, poor, own, last, deep, fashioned, 845-6, big, pure, second, assignment, wild, sympathetic, extroverted, mysterious, much, english, respectable, dear, live, obedient, and, barter, delighted, eccentric, possible, subtract, surprising.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective borrow:
pits, pit, zero, left, scheme, buy, description, plts, the, dale, wanderings, out, money.

Consonant match to borrow:
berry, bury, barrow, bearer, barre, bora, barry, borer, biro, barrie, bari, boree, barra, beery, bara, bera, berra, barye, barer, beira, baro, beary, burra, beroe, buri, bouri, berri, borah, barro, beray, burri, bero, baro-, biery, biwreye, bohrer, bieri, berrey, bierer, berrie, b re, b row, baer i, bar a, bar aux, bar e, bar eye, bar he, bar her, bar high, bar i, bar o, bar re, bar who, bare a, bare er, bare eye, bare he, bare her, bare high, bare how, bare i, barey, barr a, barr who, baur au, be re, bear a, bear he, bear her, bear high, bear how, bear i, bear re, bear who, beara, beare a, beer a, beer ae, beer he, beer i, boar a, boar he, boar who, boer a, boer who, bohr a, bohr who, boor who, bore a, bore he, bore her, bore high, bore i, bore who, buerry, buhrow, by ray, by re, byrer.

Words that sound like borrow:
borrow, baro, barro, barrow, biro, bara, bari, barra, bero, beroe, baray, berro, baara, paro, parro, bora, bowery, burra, bori, boree, borah, borey, boru, borra, borie, bar, bars, berry, bark, barn, barry, barge, bart, barrio, barz, barlow, barre, barr, barrie, barg, berrie, barth, barm, berra, beery, beary, bary, bera, bardo, bardot, barque, barl, baar, barto, barsh, berri, bario, barse, barch, bargo, barco, barke, barrs, bajo, bahr, beray, beera, barie, baio, barros, barc, baars, beri, barsch, barp, bartow, barbo, barce, berrey, barres, barno, bge, barlowe, baros, barh, barko, bartsch, barbeau, bahre, beru, beira, baho, barthe, bazo, barv, bhar, bieri, baarn, bahru, beeri.