English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English boren, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, past participle of Old English beran (“to carry, bear”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (with the horse-hoarse merger)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɔːn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /boɹn/, [bo̞ɹn]
- Homophones: born (with the horse-hoarse merger), bourn, bourne, Bourne, bawn (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
- (without the horse–hoarse merger)
- (rhotic) IPA(key): /boːɹn/
- (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /boən/
Verb[edit]
borne
- past participle of bear
-
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
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Miranda: I ſhould ſinne / To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother, / Good wombes haue borne bad ſonnes.
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- 1907, Harold Bindloss, The Dust of Conflict, chapter 21:
- “Can’t you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you. […] ”
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Adjective[edit]
borne (not comparable)
- carried, supported.
- 1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence:
- In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
- 1881 Oscar Wilde, «Rome Unvisited», Poems, page 44:
- When, bright with purple and with gold,
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
- When, bright with purple and with gold,
- c. 2000, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, II:
- Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.
- 1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence:
Derived terms[edit]
- airborne
- bloodborne
- cartborne
- food-borne
- milkborne
- railborne
- seaborne
- seed-borne
- shipborne
- space-borne
- spaceborne
- springborne
- tick-borne encephalitis
- trainborne
- truck-borne
- vector-borne
- wainborne
- waterborne
Translations[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
- Boner, Breon, Ebron, boner
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French bontie, bodne, from Medieval Latin (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“limit, boundary”), a Celtic/Transalpine Gaulish borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *bonnicca (“boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also *bundos.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /bɔʁn/
- Rhymes: -ɔʁn
Noun[edit]
borne f (plural bornes)
- bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area
- territorial boundary marker
- territorial or geographical border
- milestone such as those alongside a roadway
- (slang) a kilometre
- mark
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dépasser les bornes
- cross the mark
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- limit of a list or of an interval
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Prenez un nombre entre 0 et 100 (bornes incluses)
- Pick a number between 0 and 100, inclusive
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les lettres comprises entre A et D (bornes incluses)
- alphabetic characters from A to D
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- machine
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borne libre service
- self-service machine
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Derived terms[edit]
- borne d’incendie
- borne électrique
- borne kilométrique
- borné
- borner
- borne-fontaine
- borne-abreuvoir
- dépasser les bornes
- radioborne
References[edit]
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ Mann, S. E. (1963). Armenian and Indo-European: Historical Phonology. United Kingdom: Luzac, p. 73
Further reading[edit]
- “borne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin bodina, butina, from Transalpine Gaulish.
Noun[edit]
borne f (plural bornes)
- (Jersey) boundary stone
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French borne,[1] from Medieval Latin (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“limit, boundary”), a Celtic/Transalpine Gaulish borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *bonnicca (“boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also *bundos.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈboɾne/ [ˈboɾ.ne]
Noun[edit]
borne m (plural bornes)
- Each of the metallic terminals of certain electrical machines and apparatus, intended for the connection of conductive wires
- Special end of the spear used in jousting.
References[edit]
- ^ Diccionario de la RAE: borne
- ^ Mann, S. E. (1963). Armenian and Indo-European: Historical Phonology. United Kingdom: Luzac, p. 73
Further reading[edit]
- “borne”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
с узким кругозором, ограниченный
глагол
- носить, нести; переносить
- книжн. нести на себе, иметь (знаки, признаки, следы)
- книжн. носить (имя, титул)
- касаться, иметь отношение (к кому-л. / чему-л.); быть связанным с (чем-л.)
- нести (расходы, ответственность); гнать; терпеть
существительное
- медведь; медведица; неуклюжий человек
- эк. биржевой спекулянт, играющий на понижение, «медведь»; бирж. проф. спекулянт; «медведь»
- тех. дыропробивной пресс, медведка; ручной дыропробивной пресс
- ячмень
- = teddy bear плюшевый медвежонок (детская игрушка)
Мои примеры
Словосочетания
Примеры с переводом
Wherefore was I borne? 
Зачем я родился?
The prisoner’s story was borne out by his wife.
Рассказ заключённого подтвердила его жена.
The spores are borne on the wind.
Эти споры разносятся ветром.
The sound of music was borne along on the wind.
Звуки музыки разнеслись по ветру.
The word has borne an opprobrious connotation.
Слово приобрело ругательный оттенок.
The expense of the work to be borne by the abutters.
Расходы по проведению работ должны взять на себя владельцы смежных земельных участков.
Lady Mice was borne away with joy when her child was given back to her.
Когда леди Майс вернули её ребёнка, она не могла найти себе места от радости.
Примеры, ожидающие перевода
…repeatedly borne up in times of adversity by his faith… 
Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке ☰, напротив примера.
Возможные однокоренные слова
overborne — пересиленный, подавленный, превзойденный
bornite — борнит, пестрая медная руда
Adjective
My book surveys the public-health landscape from food-borne and insectborne diseases to antibiotic resistance, from infectious causes of chronic afflictions to bioterrorism.
—
Madeline Drexler, Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2002
The news carried by mail coach is an exact inversion of the railroad-borne news in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son (1844-46).
—John Plotz, The Crowd, 2000
I would tend to think your strawberries died from other causes. Strawberries need excellent drainage and a sandy, acidic soil that has good air space to encourage root health. They like a soil that has been amended with compost. But strawberries can succumb to soil-borne diseases.
—Kathy Huber, Houston Chronicle, 3 Oct. 1998
Recent Examples on the Web
That’s followed by glimpses of Chalamet’s Edgar inadvertently puncturing a football, attracting a field of magnets in science class, and more scissorhands-borne mishaps.
—Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2021
That mosquito-borne illness infected at least 38 people in the northeast and Midwest and killed 15 of them, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
—Scottie Andrew, CNN, 12 May 2020
With pandemic preparedness, a respiratory-borne illness was always the big worry.
—Matthew Herper, STAT, 6 Mar. 2020
Ninety percent of health care organizations were hit with email-borne attacks last year, according to research released on Tuesday by Mimecast.
—Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2020
Sanders, volunteer coordinator at the Historical Society of Washington, clutched the roll of paper tightly, lest it be blown out of his hands and borne to 20th Street NW, eight stories down.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2019
By combining those data with the floats’ own current-borne trajectories, investigators can reconstruct overall currents and their speed.
—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 5 Feb. 2020
In all the history of respiratory-borne viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks.
—NBC News, 28 Jan. 2020
Due to mounting concerns over the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis, the start time for the UConn football team’s home game against South Florida on Saturday has been switched from 7 p.m. to noon, the school announced Sunday.
—Chris Brodeur, courant.com, 29 Sep. 2019
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Meaning of BORNE in English
[borne] past part of bear
[2]borne adj [borne] (ca. 1559): transported or transmitted by—used in combination «soilborne» «airborne»
Merriam-Webster English vocab.
Английский словарь Merriam Webster.
2012
Contents
- 1 What does it mean to Borne something?
- 2 What is difference between Borne and born?
- 3 Is borne Old English?
- 4 What does borne mean in law?
- 5 What does it mean to bore a child?
- 6 What is the meaning of Borne in accounting?
- 7 What does borne by the employee mean?
- 8 What does borne fruit mean?
- 9 What does borne himself mean?
- 10 What does borne mean in literature?
- 11 What does bravely borne mean?
- 12 What is the root word of Borne?
- 13 Who will bear the cost Meaning?
- 14 What is a bravely borne illness?
- 15 Will be borne by meaning?
- 16 Can you bear a child?
- 17 What does bare mean in slang?
- 18 Can’t bear to watch Meaning?
- 19 What is the age of pregnancy?
- 20 Do you rear a child or raise a child?
What does it mean to Borne something?
On ‘Born’ and ‘Borne’
Born is commonly used with the sense of bear meaning “to give birth.” Borne is used in reference to carrying something (physically or figuratively), as a combining form with words like air, and, occasionally, in the “give birth to” sense.
What is difference between Borne and born?
Born is the past participle of the verb bear only when it’s used in the sense of birth. … Borne is the past participle of the verb bear in all senses except the one related to birth. It can also be used as an adjective in these senses.
Is borne Old English?
Born originated from Old English boren, past participle of beran which means ‘to bear’. Borne however, originated from Old English beran, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit bharati, Greek pherein, and Latin ferre.
Related Definitions
Borne by means deducted by.
What does it mean to bore a child?
The verb bear is sometimes used to describe the act of giving birth. … Have is more common when talking about giving birth: She bore twelve children in twenty-two years. (or, more commonly, She had twelve children …)
What is the meaning of Borne in accounting?
a person who expects future prices in a STOCK EXCHANGE or COMMODITY MARKET to fall and who seeks to make money by selling shares or commodities.
What does borne by the employee mean?
Borne is the past participle of bear. -borne. -borne combines with nouns to form adjectives that describe the method or means by which something is carried or moved.
What does borne fruit mean?
to turn out as planned or desired.
What does borne himself mean?
5. to drive or push: The crowd was borne back by the police. 6. to carry or conduct (oneself, one’s body, etc.): to bear oneself bravely. … I can’t bear your nagging.
What does borne mean in literature?
literary. 1. if something is borne in on you, you realize that it is true. Synonyms and related words. To be, or to become known.
What does bravely borne mean?
adj. a having or displaying courage, resolution, or daring; not cowardly or timid.
What is the root word of Borne?
Old English beran “to carry, bring; bring forth, give birth to, produce; to endure without resistance; to support, hold up, sustain; to wear” (class IV strong verb; past tense bær, past participle.
Who will bear the cost Meaning?
Bear the cost (or expense) means “to pay for something.” The company considered hiring additional staff, but it couldn’t bear the cost.
What is a bravely borne illness?
A blood-borne disease is a disease that can be spread through contamination by blood and other body fluids. Blood can contain pathogens of various types, chief among which are microorganisms, like bacteria and parasites, and non-living infectious agents such as viruses.
Will be borne by meaning?
Used as in water-borne (or water-born), it means “carried by.” In the phrase “borne enemies” (or “born enemies”), it means “from birth.” To add to the confusion, the spelling borne sees occasional use in the passive voice in the “to give birth to” sense, as in “two sons were borne by his wife.” In combining forms, born …
Can you bear a child?
You can bear a child, bear a responsibility, ask someone to bear with you, bear a heavy load or bare your teeth. Confusion arises in the verb form, especially in the past tense. In the present tense, there are two spellings: bear and bare. to bare means to uncover, to become naked.
What does bare mean in slang?
Take bare, for example, one of a number of slang terms recently banned by a London school. It means “a lot of“, as in “there’s bare people here”, and is the classic concealing reversal of the accepted meaning that you also find in wicked, bad and cool.
Can’t bear to watch Meaning?
If you can’t bear something or someone, you dislike them very much. … If you can’t bear to do something, you cannot do it because it makes you so unhappy. She couldn’t bear to talk about it.
What is the age of pregnancy?
Technically, women can get pregnant and bear children from puberty when they start getting their menstrual period to menopause when they stop getting it. The average woman’s reproductive years are between ages 12 and 51. Your fertility naturally declines as you get older, which could make it harder for you to conceive.
Do you rear a child or raise a child?
Finally, the verb rear describes the act of rearing children. You rear children. You raise corn. This is the old rule, but it is giving way to the use of raise when referring to the growth and supervision of children.