Borrow
- n. The act of borrowing.
- v. t. To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; — the opposite of lend.
- v. t. To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; — a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.
- v. t. To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
- v. t. To feign or counterfeit.
- v. t. To receive; to take; to derive.
- n. Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.