The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source

Usage examples of borrowing.

Muff, Ministre Anglican, and borrowing money of him, and of her coaxing and flirting with Milor Noodle, son of Sir Noodle, pupil of the Rev.

And she might see about renting or borrowing a boat to take out on the lake.

Furthermore, when we consult the maps, the prototypes of which were made by them, and on which the Australian continent, although evidently distorted for a purpose, is set down with a fair amount of accuracy, we find these very documents borrowing certain features and a certain nomenclature from older representations on globes and maps.

I optioned as much as I could, using all the liquid capital I could lay hands on, plus all the cash I could raise by borrowing against nonliquid assets.

But the story-teller, in every case, has so recolored and reshaped his borrowing as to naturalize it.

Vizille, iMounier reemphasized his departure from traditional Par-lementaire rhetoric with its borrowings from Montesquieu and emphasis on historically preserved rights.

Since the borrowing and repaying on average cancel each other out, an empty region of space looks calm and placid when examined with all but microscopic precision.

I would never have gone out with Billy Ray, I would never have known Targhees were sheep, and I would never have come up with the idea of borrowing them.

The borrowing interest rate was low, rents were low, inflation was high, and creditors were in no hurry to call in debts.

Most authorities disputed this allegation, citing no reason other than the unlikelihood of humans borrowing anything from the elven or dwarven folk.

They took turns reciting Homeric genealogies, full of falsifications and borrowings from real life, and sometimes they fought over this or that favorite real uncle or aunt, and had to bargain like casting directors.

His idea of borrowing propellant tanks from one of the landers was not as far-fetched as it seemed, but it had still been a gamble.

There I found Mr. Skimpole, who had come down by the coach, as he frequently did without notice, and never bringing any clothes with him, but always borrowing everything he wanted.

Then he bought an automobile for three thousand pesos, borrowing the difference from the company of whom he made the purchase.

There is not, indeed, a greater error than that which universally prevails among the vulgar, who, borrowing their opinion from some ignorant satirists, have affixed the character of lewdness to these times.