Borrowname

• 1

  A surname.

  • George Borrow wrote novels and travelogues based on his experiences travelling around Europe.

borrowverb詞源 1/ˈbɒɹəʊ/

• 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.
• 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.

  • to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
  • It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.
• 4

  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesTo adopt a word from another language.

  • Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military abbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”.
• 5

  arithmeticIn 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

  To lend.

  • “Rosie, borrow me your look looker, I bet my lips are all. Everytime^([sic]) I eat or drink, so quick I gotta fix ’em, yet.”
  • Johari Salleh: Ya, ya. Better not waste time. Must prepare, tomorrow morning got inspection. Teo Ah Beng: Ya lah, must kiwi [polish] the boots. Can borrow me your cloth? Krishnamoorthy: Ya, no problem. You better kiwi quickly. 11 pm lights off. […]
• 7

  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.
  • Yes, my lord, he told me this in my own house; and I told him he might go to esquire Tindal, and I lent him eighteen pence, and borrowed him a horse in the town.
• 8

  To feign or counterfeit.

  • borrowed hair
  • the borrowed majesty of England

borrownoun詞源 1/ˈbɒɹəʊ/

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

  • This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.
  • The amount of borrow, as we term it, that must be taken from the side of any particular slope is entirely a matter of mathematical calculation, […]
• 2

  businesscivil-engineeringconstructionA borrow pit.

  • As previously indicated, slurry used for construction of the slurry cutoff trench at Beaver Creek Dam was produced with natural clays and clay tills from local borrows.
• 3

  computingengineeringmathematicsIn Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.

  • If we currently have any borrows of a value, we can't mutably borrow it into self, nor can we move it (because that would invalidate the existing borrows).

borrownoun詞源 2/ˈbɒɹəʊ/

• 1

  archaicA ransom; a pledge or guarantee.

• 2

  archaicA surety; someone standing bail.

  • ”where am I to find such a sum? If I sell the very pyx and candlesticks on the altar at Jorvaulx, I shall scarce raise the half; and it will be necessary for that purpose that I go to Jorvaulx myself; ye may retain as borrows my two priests.”