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

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To present (something) to God as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.

*Bible, (w) xxix. 36

*:Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.

(lb) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.

*2009 , Roger Williams, Triumph Tr2, 3, 3a, 4 & 4a

*:The next stage is to remove and replace the top part of the right side lip, and offer the lid to the car to ensure all the shapes and gaps are okay.

(lb) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).

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(lb) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.

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(lb) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic

(lb) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.

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(lb) To happen, to present itself.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:The occasion offers , and the youth complies.

*1749 , (John Cleland), (w) , Penguin 1985, p.64:

*:The opportunity, however, did not offer till next morning, for Phoebe did not come to bed till long after I was gone to sleep.

(lb) To make an attempt; used with at .

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:I will not offer at that I cannot master.

*(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)

*:He would be offering at the shepherd's voice.

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:without offering at any other remedy

(lb) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.

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