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borrow

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Is borrow a Scrabble word?

Yes, borrow is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 11 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of borrow?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.Examples: "Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military abbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”."

2. (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.

3. (Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.Examples: "“Rosie, borrow me your look looker, I bet my lips are all. Everytime^([sic]) I eat or drink, so quick I gotta fix ’em, yet.”"; "Johari Salleh: Ya, ya. Better not waste time. Must prepare, tomorrow morning got inspection. Teo Ah Beng: Ya lah, must kiwi [polish] the boots. Can borrow me your cloth? Krishnamoorthy: Ya, no problem. You better kiwi quickly. 11 pm lights off. […]"; "Samson, with all the cunning of a rhetorical master, cornered him. 'Then can my young son borrow me his old rifle?'"MalaysiaSingaporeWest-Midlandsproscribed

4. (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).Examples: "You must borrow me Garagantua's mouth first: 'tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's size: To say, ay, and no, to these particulars, is more than to answer in a catechism."; "Yes, my lord, he told me this in my own house; and I told him he might go to esquire Tindal, and I lent him eighteen pence, and borrowed him a horse in the town."; "I went out and borrowed him a night cap; put him my night shirt on, and wrapped him in a blanket."ditransitive

5. (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.Examples: "But if ony maiden would borrow me, I would wed her wi' a ring, And a' my land and a' my houses, They should a' be at her command."

6. (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.Examples: "Can I borrow a sheet of paper?"informal

noun (English)

1. (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.Examples: "This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it."; "The amount of borrow, as we term it, that must be taken from the side of any particular slope is entirely a matter of mathematical calculation, […]"; "[…] slippery contours, so that in making a side hill putt more than the usual amount of borrow had to be considered."countableuncountable

2. (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.Examples: "As previously indicated, slurry used for construction of the slurry cutoff trench at Beaver Creek Dam was produced with natural clays and clay tills from local borrows."countableuncountable

3. (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.Examples: "If we currently have any borrows of a value, we can't mutably borrow it into self, nor can we move it (because that would invalidate the existing borrows)."countableuncountable

noun (English)

1. (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.archaic

2. (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.Examples: "”where am I to find such a sum? If I sell the very pyx and candlesticks on the altar at Jorvaulx, I shall scarce raise the half; and it will be necessary for that purpose that I go to Jorvaulx myself; ye may retain as borrows my two priests.”"archaic

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "borrow"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "borrow"?

Scrabble
11 points
B3
O1
R1
R1
O1
W4
Words With Friends
12 points
B4
O1
R1
R1
O1
W4

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