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Load vs Borrow - What's the difference?

load | borrow |

As nouns the difference between load and borrow

is that load is a burden; a weight to be carried while borrow is deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.

As verbs the difference between load and borrow

is that load is to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage) while borrow is to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

As a proper noun Borrow is

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load

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A burden; a weight to be carried.
    • I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
  • (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind .
  • * Dryden
    • Our life's a load .
  • * 2005 , (Coldplay), Green Eyes
    • I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.
  • A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
    • The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
    She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
  • (in combination)
  • (often, in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
    • I got loads of presents for my birthday!
    I got a load of emails about that.
  • The volume of work required to be performed.
    • Will our web servers be able to cope with that load ?
  • (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
    • Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
  • (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
    • I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
  • (engineering) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
  • (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
    • Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
  • (obsolete) A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.
  • * 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 172:
    • If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.
  • A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
  • The charge of powder for a firearm.
  • (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
    • (Milton)
  • (vulgar, slang) The semen of an ejaculation.
  • * 2006 , John Patrick, Barely Legal , page 102
    • Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out
  • * 2009 , John Butler Wanderlust , page 35
    • It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew a load down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet.

    Synonyms

    * charge, freight

    Derived terms

    * see

    Verb

  • To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
    • The dock workers refused to load the ship.
  • To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
    • The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
    He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
  • To put a load on something.
    • The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading .
  • To receive a load.
    • ''The truck is designed to load easily.
  • To be placed into storage or conveyance.
    • The containers load quickly and easily .
  • To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
    • I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
  • To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
    • Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.
  • To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
    • The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
  • To be put into use in an apparatus.
    • The cartridge was designed to load easily.
  • (computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
    • Click OK to load the selected data.
  • (computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
    • This program takes an age to load .
  • (baseball) To put runners on first]], [[second base, second and third bases
    • He walks to load the bases.
  • To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
    • You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
    The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
  • To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
  • To encumber with something negative.
    • The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
  • To place as an encumbrance.
    • The new owners loaded debt on the company.
  • To provide in abundance.
    • He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
    He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
  • (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
    • to load wine
  • (archaic) To magnetize.
    • (Prior)

    Derived terms

    * See

    Derived terms

    * dead load * download * live load * load-bearing * loaded * loading * loadsamoney * load up * payload * shitload * unit load * upload English collective nouns ----

    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).
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  • 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.”
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