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Borrowing vs Burrowing - What's the difference?

borrowing | burrowing |

As verbs the difference between borrowing and burrowing

is that borrowing is present participle of lang=en while burrowing is present participle of burrow.

As nouns the difference between borrowing and burrowing

is that borrowing is an instance of borrowing something while burrowing is the act or result of making a burrow.

borrowing

English

Verb

(head)
    • She is borrowing my pen.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of borrowing something.
  • * (Horace Binney)
    • Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City
  • (linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.

    • Related terms

    * reborrowing

    burrowing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of making a burrow.
  • * 1825 , Thomas Thomson, ?Richard Phillips, ?Edward William Brayley, Annals of Philosophy
    • These perforations may be readily distinguished from those more oblique and lateral burrowings which are often found in secondary fossils