Word Finder - borrowed

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

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

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

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to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another

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To adopt a word from another language.

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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.

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(Upper Midwestern United States) To lend.

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To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

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To feign or counterfeit.

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

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

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Can I borrow a sheet of paper?

Perhaps my sister borrowed it.

Deidre borrowed her sandals and trotted down the stairs.

The new creed, the new speech, the new social system, had taken such deep root that the descendants of the Scandinavian settlers were better fitted to be the armed missionaries of all these things than the neighbours from whom they had borrowed their new possessions.

I borrowed it on my responsibility so I feel obligated to get it back to them first.

Lewknor School borrowed an incubator to hatch a dozen eggs.

A ring (which may be borrowed) is placed into a crystal casket and the top is closed.

Glossy Finish - A smear of borrowed lipstick penetrates a spectator's tightly clenched fist.

We are on borrowed time coz they are being taught how to catch.

Even the title "king" (ava) 3 appears to have been borrowed by Greek from Phrygian.

Traditions demand something borrowed and blue.

The book appears to have been printed in France, and the idea of Dame Scotia's exhortations to her sons, the Three Estates, is borrowed from Alain Chartier's Quadrilogue invectif, some passages of which are appropriated outright.

When this consonantal u (English w as seen in words borrowed very early from Latin like wall and wine) passed into the sound of English v (labio-dental) is not certain, but Germanic words borrowed into Latin in the 5th century A.D.

It should be borne in mind that in early times the larger values, such as minae, would be transmitted by commerce, while after the introduction of coinage the lesser values of shekels and drachmae would be the units; and this needs notice, because usually a borrowed unit was multiplied or divided according to the ideas of the borrowers, and strange modifications thus arose.

As a result, they had to evolve a new past-tense conjugation, which they borrowed from a different conjugation type.

Earlier on, Tertullian had borrowed from the stoics the doctrine of the soul's corporeality as well as God's own corporeality.

Based on material borrowed from the Sachsische Weltchronik (formerly called Repgowische Chronik from its dubious assignment to Eime von Repgow), the oldest prose chronicle of the world in German (c. 1248 or 1260).

His Recherche de la verite, in 1674, was the baptism of the system into a theistic religion which borrowed its imagery from Augustine; it brought into prominence the metaphysical base which Louis Delaforge, Jacques Rohault and Regis had neither cared for nor understood.

Some had mortgaged their houses, fields and vineyards to buy corn; others had borrowed to pay the taxes, and had sold their children to their richer brethren to repay the debt.

In 1589 it was introduced into Russia, when the tsar Theodore erected the Russian patriarchate and bestowed on the new patriarch the right to wear the mitre, sakkos and mandyas, all borrowed from the Greek rite.

In Rome philosophy never became more than a secondary pursuit; naturally, therefore, the Roman thinkers were for the most part eclectic. Of this tendency Cicero is the most striking illustration - his philosophical works consisting of an aggregation, with little or no blending, of doctrines borrowed from Stoicism, Peripateticism, and the scepticism of the Middle Academy.

Soon after this king obtained the throne he borrowed the sum of 3000 marks from the city, and moreover founded the excellent precedent of repaying it at the appointed time.

The story of Siegfried in Richard Wagner's famous opera-cycle Der Ring der Nibelungen is mainly taken from the northern version; but many features, especially the characterization of Hagen, are borrowed from the German story, as is also the episode of Siegfried's murder in the forest.

He was thus a "familiar spirit," akin to the "daemon" of Socrates; and if he was also half the devil of theology, half the kobold of old German myth, this was only because such "objectivations" are apt to clothe themselves in forms borrowed from the common stock of ideas current at the time when the seer lives; and Faust lived in an age obsessed with the fear of the devil, and by no means sceptical of the existence of kobolds.

The only way of removing the, president from office is by impeachment, an institution borrowed from Great Britain, where it had not become obsolete at the time when the United States constitution was adopted.

It has been largely borrowed either from previous English or from later German idealism, and what originality it has possessed has been mainly shown in that spirit of eclectic compromise which is so dear to the English mind.

Its use would seem to have been borrowed, not from the robes of the Eastern emperors, but from the church, and to symbolize with the other robes the quasisacerdotal character of the kingship (see Coronation).

But he admits that " some of the old poems may have been borrowed from tradition, without any intermediary " (ibid.); and when it is considered that the traces of the " cantilenes " are slight, and that the degree in which they inspired the later poetry must be a matter of impression rather than of proof, it does not surprise us to find other scholars (notably Paul Meyer) attaching less importance to them, or even doubting their existence.2 When Leon Gautier shows how history passes into legend, and legend again into romance, we are reminded of the difference 1 Die exegetischen Scholien der Ilias, p. vii.

Otherwise, the name is only found among the Phrygians, who, according to Hesychius, called the Heaven-god (Zeus) Bagaeus; there, however, it may have been borrowed from the Persians.

Marco Polo visited it between 1271 and 1275, and Goes in 1603; but the continuous wars (see Turkestan) prevented Europeans from frequenting it, so that until 1863 the information borrowed from medieval travellers and from Chinese sources, with that supplied by the pundit Mir Isset Ullah in 1812, was all that was known about the Yarkand region.

Lessing set about the translation and annotation of it, and Moses Mendelssohn borrowed from Burke's speculation at least one of the most fruitful and important ideas of his own influential theories on the sentiments.

Signs are not the reflection of a basic reality any more; they become simulacra, a term borrowed by Baudrillard from Ecclesiates.

I borrowed a friends steam generator iron last summer when she was on holiday and that persuaded me.

Please note that certain classes of material, particularly journals and tripos projects may not be borrowed.

The satellites themselves have a completely new tweeter, which has been ' borrowed ' from KEF 's luxury Q Range speakers.

Typewriters The Library has a portable electronic typewriter which may be borrowed for 48 hours.

Even if you've determined that the baby crib you've purchased from a local consignment shop or borrowed from your sister is safe, you'll still need to pay attention to crib maintenance.

Sayings can be created by you or borrowed from famous authors, film stars, and even sports figures.

Others, however, still seek to give their babies names that are borrowed from ancient ancestors.

Before 1914, the U.S. borrowed money from Europe, but with European countries involved in the war, there was no money to borrow.

Bankruptcy allows a borrower to come forward and state that he or she is unable to make payments on the borrowed funds.

So using the home as collateral for a borrowed lifestyle is very risky.

Additionally, most people have spent that borrowed money and do not have it available to pay the taxes.

With the increased cash flow, lawyers could invest borrowed money into a case, instead of their own funds on which they'd already paid taxes.

If given an interest rate of 5.99 percent, for example, this will result in a monthly payment of nearly $1800, even though the same amount of money was borrowed.

You can obtain additional cards for others to use, but this does not mean those individuals gain responsibility for repaying the borrowed funds.

Use them wisely, repaying the borrowed funds each month on time.

Some believe it was borrowed from the 1970s green politics.

Most of these qualities are borrowed from the southern region of France and give the best representation of French country design style.

The Southwestern designs are borrowed from the Spanish and Mexican cultures as well as the Native American artforms.

Much of the architectural influences of the Southwestern designs are borrowed from Mexican-Spanish home designs.