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заимствам — meaning in English

zaimstvam

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English meaning

  • borrow verb To take or receive something temporarily, intending to give it back.
  • naturalize verb To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.

Senses

заимствам is used for these senses in English:

  • borrow (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.
  • naturalize (linguistics, transitive) To make (a word) a natural part of the language, using the native homologue#Noun of each phoneme#Noun (and often for each morpheme#Noun) of the imported word (e.g., native inflections).

borrow — full definition

  1. verb To take or receive something temporarily, intending to give it back.
  2. verb To adopt an idea, word, or style from somewhere else and use it as your own.

naturalize — full definition

  1. verb To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.
  2. verb To acclimatize an animal or plant.
  3. verb To make natural.
  4. verb To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.

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