Borrow vs Lens - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between borrow and lens

is that borrow is to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it while lens is to film, shoot.

As nouns the difference between borrow and lens

is that borrow is deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant while lens is an object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.

As a proper noun Borrow

is {{surname}.

borrow

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) borwen, .

Alternative forms

* boro (Jamaican English)

Verb

(en verb)

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

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

, 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).

To feign or counterfeit.

* Spenser

borrowed hair

* Shakespeare

the borrowed majesty of England

Synonyms

* (adopt) adopt, use

Antonyms

* (receive temporarily) give back (exchanging the transfer of ownership), lend (exchanging the owners), return (exchanging the transfer of ownership) * (in arithmetic) carry (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of addition)

Derived terms

* borrowed time * borrower

Noun

(en noun)

(golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.

This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) borg, from (etyl) (related to Etymology 1, above).

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.

(archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.

* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :

”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.”

1000 English basic words

lens

English

(wikipedia lens)

Noun

(es)

An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field.}}

A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.

(geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.

(biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.

(anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)

, title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}

(by extension, figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.

* 2004 April 11, Ann Hulbert, "Are the Kids All Right?", in (The New York Times Magazine) , page 11:

If "the public looks at the condition of America's children largely through a negative lens ," worries Child Trends promote child well-being."

Derived terms

* contact lens * fisheye lens * lenticel * lenticular * lenticule * lentil * long lens * long-focus lens * macro lens * normal lens * telephoto lens * wide-angle lens * zoom lens

Verb

To film, shoot.

(geology) To become thinner towards the edges.