Difference between Barrow and Borrow

What is the difference between Barrow and Borrow?

Barrow as a noun is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. while Borrow as a noun is a ransom; a pledge or guarantee.

Barrow

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand. (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.

Borrow

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.To adopt (an idea) as one's own.To adopt a word from another language.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.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.A surety; someone standing bail.

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