borrow

(Anglès)

Verb

1. To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
2. To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
3. To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
4. To adopt a word from another language.
5. 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.
6. (Malaysia, Singapore, West-Midlands, proscribed) To lend.
7. (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
8. To feign or counterfeit.
9. To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
10. (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
11. (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
12. To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
2. (countable, uncountable) A borrow pit.
3. (countable, uncountable) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.

Noun

1. (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
2. (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈbɒɹ.əʊ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb neerlandès: borgen

Cognat amb alemany: borgen

Cognat amb danès: borge

Cognat amb anglès antic: beorgan

Heretat de anglès mitjà: borwe

Heretat de anglès antic: borh

In summary

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.

Conceptes

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Sinònims

lend

loan

rent

hire

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take over

take

advance

have a loan

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charter

lease

take out

use

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buy on credit

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l

raise a loan

debt

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obligation

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🛐

quote

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request

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borrowing

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borrow digit

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Traduccions

emprunter

leihen

borgen

lenen

δανείζομαι

ausleihen

pożyczać

pedir prestado

prendere in prestito

entleihen

tomar prestado

emprestar

pedir emprestado

prestar

entlehnen

Frases

For their first exercises the gunners had to borrow horses to pull their guns .

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