lainata — meaning in English
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English meaning
- borrow verb To take or receive something temporarily, intending to give it back.
- excerpt noun A short passage taken from a longer book, film, speech or piece of music and presented on its own.
- extract verb To pull or draw something out, often with effort or force.
- lend verb To let someone use something of yours for a while, on the understanding they will give it back.
- loan noun A sum of money lent to someone on the understanding that it will be paid back, often with interest.
- quote noun A short passage of words repeated from someone else.
Senses
lainata is used for these senses in English:
- borrow To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- borrow To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- 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.
- check out (intransitive) To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
- excerpt (transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
- extract (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
- lend (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
- lend (intransitive) To make a loan.
borrow — full definition
- verb To take or receive something temporarily, intending to give it back.
- verb To adopt an idea, word, or style from somewhere else and use it as your own.
excerpt — full definition
- noun A short passage taken from a longer book, film, speech or piece of music and presented on its own.
- verb To take a passage out of a longer work in order to quote or publish it separately.