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Word: borrow
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Meaning:
Noun:
- archaic A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
- archaic A surety; someone standing bail.
- golf Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
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Verb:
- 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.
- double|_|transitive|US|dialect| To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- linguistics To adopt a word from another language.
- rfv-sense To lend.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
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