English Dictionary

borrow

/ˈbɒɹ.əʊ/

verb

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. / To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.

Can I borrow your pen?

意味（1）

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

意味（2）

To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.

意味（3）

To adopt (an idea) as one's own.

to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another

意味（4）

(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.

意味（5）

(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.

意味（6）

(Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, proscribed) To lend.

Rosie, borrow me your look looker, I bet my lips are all. Everytime I eat or drink, so quick I gotta fix ’em, yet.

意味（7）

(ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

You must borrow me Garagantua's mouth first: 'tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's size: To say, ay, and no, to these particulars, is more than to answer in a catechism.

意味（8）

To feign or counterfeit.

borrowed hair

意味（9）

(obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.

But if ony maiden would borrow me,

I would wed her wi' a ring,

And a' my land and a' my houses,

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.

意味（10）

(informal) To receive (something) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.

Can I borrow a sheet of paper?

意味（11）

(informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.

John, can I borrow you for a second? I need your help with the copier.

意味（12）

(golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.