allow vs borrow

allow

verb
  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

borrow

verb
  • To lend. 

  • To adopt (an idea) as one's own. 

  • To feign or counterfeit. 

  • To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. 

  • To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time. 

  • To secure the release of (someone) from prison. 

  • To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it. 

  • To adopt a word from another language. 

  • To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc. 

  • To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green. 

  • To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone). 

  • 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. 

noun
  • A borrow pit. 

  • Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant. 

  • In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code. 

How often have the words allow and borrow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )