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borrow
Verb
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If you borrow something from someone, you use it and then you give it back to them.
Governments need to make it easier for students to borrow money for school.
The company has also borrowed heavily from the Boston Federal Reserve Bank - some $1.6 billion last month alone.
Can I borrow your car and show my dad I can drive?
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If you borrow words or ideas from somebody, you use them in your own writing or speaking.
Many people want to throw the war "down the memory hole", to borrow a phrase from Orwell's 1984.
The choreographer borrowed a number from Swan Lake for his satirical ballet called Birds in Ballet.
from
Preposition
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When something is from someone, the person gave or sent it.
I got a gift from my grandmother today.
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When someone is from a place, that's where they started.
I am Chinese. I come from Hunan province.
Sorry I'm late. I just came from school.
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You use from to talk about distances between thing in space or time.
Saturn is far from earth.
School is 5km from my home.
The year 2515 is a long time from now.