Borrow and Touch

Borrow

Borrow verb - To take for one's own use (something originated by another).

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Touch and borrow are semantically related. in take for temporary use topic. In some cases you can use "Touch" instead a verb "Borrow".

Nearby Words: borrowing, borrower

Touch verb - To come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin.

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Borrow and touch are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Borrow" with "Touch", this verbs are similar.

Nearby Words: touched, touchy, touching, toucher, touchable

body	borrow body	touch body
game	borrow game	touch game
book	borrow book	touch book
car	borrow car	touch car
Other words: ball, sword, hat, books, bodies.

In those times "touch" or "put the touch on" was slang for asking to borrow money.

Source: Film / The Wedding March
When Bulma remembers where she put the Dragon Radar (in a place where Trunks didn't know to look), the group briefly panics while trying to figure out how to get in touch with Trunks, until Videl points out that they could simply borrow her cell phone.

Source: Reinventing the Telephone
Parodied in the "Cash Cow" sketches on Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor, which had easy questions like "Find an anagram of CTA", and ridiculous ones like "Things you might do" with the answers "Borrow an Angle Grinder", "Watch the film Coneheads" and "Oology".

Source: Excuse Question

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