Borrowing vs Synonym - What's the difference?
borrowing | synonym |
An instance of borrowing something.
* (Horace Binney)
(linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
(semantics, with respect to a given word or phrase) A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.
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(zoology, with respect to a name for a given taxon) Any of the formal names for the taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).
(botany, with respect to a name for a given taxon) Any name for the taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
(databases) An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
* 2011 , Paul Nielsen, Uttam Parui, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible
As nouns the difference between borrowing and synonym
is that borrowing is an instance of borrowing something while synonym is .As a verb borrowing
is .borrowing
English
Verb
(head)- She is borrowing my pen.
Noun
(en noun)- 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
synonym
English
(wikipedia synonym)Noun
(en noun)- "Happy" is a synonym of "glad".
- Synonyms are part of the SQL standard and are used frequently by Oracle DBAs. Note that Oracle includes both private and public synonyms.