BORROW

Definitions for the word, borrow

(n.) Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

(n.) The act of borrowing.

(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 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 receive; to take; to derive.

(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.