Borrow vs. Lent

Borrowverb

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

Borrowverb

To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.

Borrowverb

To adopt (an idea) as one's own.

Borrowverb

(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.

Borrowverb

(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.

Borrowverb

To lend.

Borrowverb

To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

Borrowverb

To feign or counterfeit.

Borrownoun

(golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.

Borrownoun

A borrow pit.

Borrownoun

(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.

Borrownoun

(archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.

Borrowverb

To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; - the opposite of lend.

Borrowverb

To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; - a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.

Borrowverb

To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.

Borrowverb

To feign or counterfeit.

Borrowverb

To receive; to take; to derive.

Borrownoun

Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

Borrownoun

The act of borrowing.

Borrowverb

get temporarily;

Borrowverb

take up and practice as one's own

Lentnoun

alternative form of Lent|

Lentverb

simple past tense and past participle of lend

Lent

imp. & p. p. of Lend.

Lentnoun

A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.

Lentadjective

Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.

Lentadjective

See Lento.

Lentnoun

a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday

Lentnoun

(in the Christian Church) the period preceding Easter, which is devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ's fasting in the wilderness. In the Western Church it runs from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, and so includes forty weekdays.

Lentnoun

the boat races held at Cambridge University in the Lent term.

Lent

Lent (Latin: Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is a religious observance in the Christian liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later; depending on the Christian denomination and local custom, Lent concludes either on the evening of Maundy Thursday, or at sundown on Holy Saturday, when the Easter Vigil is celebrated. Regardless, Lenten practices are properly maintained until the evening of Holy Saturday.