Verb

(en verb)

To request (information, or an answer to a question).

I asked her age.

To put forward (a question) to be answered.

to ask a question

To interrogate or enquire of (a person).

I'm going to ask this lady for directions.

* Bible, John ix. 21

He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

To request or petition; usually with for .

to ask for a second helping at dinner

to ask for help with homework

* Bible, Matthew vii. 7

Ask , and it shall be given you.

To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.

What price are you asking for the house?

* Addison

An exigence of state asks a much longer time to conduct a design to maturity.

To invite.

Don't ask them to the wedding.

To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.

(Fuller)

(figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.

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Verb

(en verb)

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

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, title= End of the peer show , passage=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.}}

To adopt (an idea) as one's own.

to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another

* Macaulay

rites borrowed from the ancients

* Milton

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.

(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.

(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.

(proscribed) To lend.

* {{quote-book, year=1951, year_published=1998, publisher=University of Wisconsin Press

, editor=James P. Leary, author=The Grenadiers, section=Milwaukee Talk, isbn=9780299160340, page=56 , title= Wisconsin Folklore , passage=“Rosie, borrow me your look looker, I bet my lips are all. Everytime I eat or drink, so quick I gotta fix ’em, yet.”}}

* {{quote-book, year=2005, publisher=Trafford Publishing, author=Gladys Blyth

, title= Summer at the Cannery , isbn=9781412025362, page=83 , passage=“Ryan, borrow me your lunch pail so we can fill it with blueberries. Susie can make us a pie.”}}

* {{quote-book, year=2006, publisher=Andres Rueda, author=Andrés Rueda, section=Chapter 13

, title= The Clawback , isbn=9781419647680, page=131 , passage=Georgi reached for his empty pockets. “Can you borrow me your telephone?”}}

* {{quote-book, year=2007, publisher=Lulu.com, author=Silvia Cecchini

, title= Bach Flowers Fairytales , isbn=9781847533203, page=7 , passage=“Gaia, could you borrow me your pencils ,(SIC) today, if you do not use them?”}}

To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

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To feign or counterfeit.

* Spenser

borrowed hair

* Shakespeare

the borrowed majesty of England