Borrow

Borrow or borrowing can mean: to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

In finance, monetary debt
In language, the use of loanwords
In arithmetic, when a digit become smaller than limit and the deficiency is taken from the next digit to the left
In music, the use of borrowed chords
In the Discworld fictional universe, "the art of overlaying one's hi mind on the mind of another creature so that she can see through its eyes and steer its actions" as practised by the character Granny Weatherwax

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In construction, borrow pit

Famous quotes containing the word borrow:

“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

“I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people—the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism—it is mere fetish.... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.”
—George Borrow (1803–1881)

“They borrow words for thoughts they cannot feel,
That with a seeming heart their tongue may speak;
And in their show of life more dead they live
Than those that to the earth with many tears they give.”
—Jones Very (1831–1880)