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Wiki vs Borrowing - What's the difference?

wiki | borrowing |

As a proper noun wiki

is (proscribed) wikipedia.

As a verb borrowing is

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As a noun borrowing is

an instance of borrowing something.

wiki

English

(wikipedia wiki)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.

    • Derived terms

    * interwiki

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
    • To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
  • *
  • * '>citation
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  • To conduct research on a wiki.
  • To contribute to a wiki.
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  • To participate in the wiki-based production of.
  • * '>citation

    • Derived terms

    * wikify * wikiholic * wikilink * The names of many wiki-based Web projects, e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, ), (WikiLeaks), (Wikibooks), (Wikimedia Foundation).

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    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