Word Finder - borrows

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

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This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.

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A borrow pit.

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

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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?

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A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.

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A surety; someone standing bail.

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To each quotation, as he borrows it, Vincent prefixes the name of the book and author from whom it is taken, distinguishing, however, his own remarks by the word "actor."

And this later contrast is all the more striking that Villehardouin agrees with, and not impossibly borrows from, these very writers in many points of style and phraseology.

An English biography of Montaigne by Bayle St John appeared in 1858, and Walter Pater's unfinished Gaston de Latour borrows from Montaigne and his story.

Palaeontology both borrows from and sheds light upon geology and other branches of the physical history of the earth, each of which, such as palaeogeography or palaeometeorology, is the more fascinating because of the large element of the unknown, the need for constructive imagination, the appeal to other branches of biological and physical investigation for supplementary evidence, and the necessity of constant comparison with the present aspects of nature.

In detail, to express this supposed inner will of thinking, he borrows from Leibnitz and Kant the term " apperception," but in a sense of his own.

T appears in Etruscan as y, 7 t, and X; of these Umbrian borrows the first two, while Oscan has a form T like Latin.

In the case of a beautiful object the resultant pleasure borrows its specific quality from the presence of determinations essentially objective in their nature, though not reducible to the categories of science.

He borrows from Kant's "rationalism " the hypothesis of a spontaneous activity of the subject with the deduction that knowledge begins from sense, but arises from understanding; and he accepts from Kant's metaphysical idealism the consequence that everything we perceive, experience and know about physical nature, and the bodies of which it consists, is phenomena, and not bodily things in themselves.

Several of the T-shirts also borrows form popular culture (by way of logs), and then are given their own particular "Straight Edge" spin.

This title borrows the best elements from the previous four Mario Kart games and adds some great new bits.

Tribal belly dance borrows moves from Africa as well as other cultures, however the African style of theatrical emotion while dancing is very prominent in Lacey's style.

As the homeowner borrows and then repays what was borrowed, the amount repaid becomes available again to be borrowed.

The first of the company's two websites permits borrows to make online mortgage payments for $10.00 per transaction.

In a reverse mortgage, a homeowner borrows money against the equity in their home.

A direct mail campaign marketing letter borrows several elements from journalism.

This move borrows from the strength training camp to provide a quick thigh and glute muscle-building workout during your aerobics exercise.

Big Brother borrows its name from the George Orwell novel 1984, in which citizens are watched 24/7 by "Big Brother."

In this type of mortgage, a homeowner borrows money against the equity in their house, essentially selling it to a lender.

Barthelemy borrows his name as the title for his Anacharsis en Grece.