Verb

(en verb)

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

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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

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

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

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* {{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)

To cause to become.

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To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.

* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

we may, at last, render our philosophy like that of Epictetus

To translate into another language.

to render Latin into English

To pass down.

To make over as a return.

To give; to give back.

to render an account of what really happened

* I. Watts

Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue.

to give up; to yield; to surrender.

* Shakespeare

I'll make her render up her page to me.

(computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.

To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.

To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.

(cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.

(construction) To cover a wall with a film of cement or plaster.

(nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.

(nautical) To yield or give way.

(Totten)

(obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.

* Spenser

whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may

(obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 41

I will render vengeance to mine enemies.