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Definition: BORNE |
BORNE1. Of Bear Past participle1. Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t. |
Date "BORNE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The municipality of Borne also includes the following towns, villages and townships: Hertme, Zenderen.
Borne is also a commune in the Ardèche département, in France.External Link
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Borne."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Overcome; broken down, borne down, bowed down; heartstricken; (mental suffering); cut up, dashed, sunk; unnerved, unmanned; down fallen, downtrodden; broken-hearted; careworn. |
Excitability | Be borne, be endured; go down. |
Failure | Aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited; foiled; defeated; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked. |
Imbecility Folly | Shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt; prosaic; hebetudinous. |
Pain | Intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable; past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Lyrics | Livin' on the music so fine, borne on the wind, (Night Fever; performing artist: The Bee Gees) | |
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Listeria monocytogenes is the infectious agent responsible for the food borne illness Listeriosis. In the United States, an estimated 2,500 persons become seriously ill with listeriosis each year. Of these, 500 die. Credit: CDC. | A row of teeth arises from a large sclerotized plate borne laterally on the eighth abdominal segment. Uranotaenia have characteristically shaped heads, longer than wide. All but one Western species have four stout spines on the head. Credit: CDC. | ||
![]() | Crete, 1941. A burning German glider plane about to crash during the air borne invasion. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The problem of supplying the armies of democracy is borne by all those nations taking part in the fight. These are Chinese workers drilling in a Netherlands East Indies tin mine with American-made drills. For many years nearly all our tin has come from th. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | America's highest dignitaries of state, army and navy stand at salute while the casket containing the body of the unknown soldiers is borne to the casson [sic] taking it from the Navy Yard to the Capitol. In the group are General Pershing, Gen. Lejeune, c. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Dante Alighieri | This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. |
George Eliot | Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. |
Henrik Ibsen | In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children. |
Hosea Ballou | Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant of others. |
Ovid | The burden which is well borne becomes light. |
The Koran | O men, respect women who have borne you. |
Thomas Fuller | What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But whether this be from a true love of mankind and society, and such a charity as we owe all one to another, there is reason to doubt: for this is no more than what every man, who loves his own power, profit, or greatness, may and naturally must do, keep those animals from hurting, or destroying one another, who labour and drudge only for his pleasure and advantage; and so are taken care of, not out of any love the master has for them, but love of himself, and the profit they bring him: for if it be asked, what security, what fence is there, in such a state, against the violence and oppression of this absolute ruler? the very question can scarce be borne. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The cost of construction shall be borne by the Czecho-Slovak State. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It was almost intolerable to be borne. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A miserable man, through love for a woman and for the child she had borne him, had been making false coin, his means being exhausted |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Struggling and kicking under the cuts of the cane and the blows of the knotty stump Stephen was borne back against a barbed wire fence |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | For I have always borne that laudable partiality to my own country, which Dionysius Halicarnassensis with so much justice recommends to a historian |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The average cost to them was $73 per month, borne largely out of pocket. (references) | |
Supplementation of diet with a variety of additives has not borne fruit, but is an active area of research. (references) | ||
Lyme disease spirochetes disseminate from the site of the tick bite by cutaneous, lymphatic and blood borne routes. (references) | ||
Business | Intermediate suppliers of goods and services receive a credit for GST paid, so that the cost of GST is borne only by the final consumer. (references) | |
The Saudi government drive to privatize some of its entities and functions and reduce social costs borne by the government will present excellent opportunities for foreign insurance and reinsurance companies. (references) | ||
One of the most significant barriers to adoption of new technologies in the Australian health care market is borne out in the composition of the attendees to the most significant IT healthcare conference event on the Australian calendar. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | Costs of extending bid bonds are borne by the bidders. (references) |
India | All expenses are to be borne by remittances from the head office abroad. (references) | |
Kenya | Government efforts to address these problems have, as yet, not borne much fruit. (references) | |
Human Rights | Turkey | Bar Associations in large cities, such as Istanbul, have attorneys on call 24 hours a day; costs are borne by the Association. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | Although the corporate tax rate is nominally 30%, the actual burden borne by businesses can be higher due to the tax laws treatment of amortization and depreciation allowances. (references) |
Travel | Turkey | Food and water borne diseases are prevalent throughout Turkey. (references) |
Women | China | Women have borne the brunt of the economic reform of state-owned enterprises. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London -- "Rubbish may be shot here." |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I hope every Member will remember that the burdens he will bear as our President, will be borne for all of us. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The burden of catastrophic illness can be borne by very few in our society. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Like all parents who lose their children, his father Tom has borne unimaginable grief. |
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| "BORNE" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 99.46% of the time. "BORNE" is used about 1,113 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 99.46% | 1,107 | 6,840 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,113 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BORNE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Borne | Last name | 1,000 | 11,593 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "BORNE": air borne ♦ air borne troops ♦ be borne in upon smb. ♦ borne by ♦ borne in on ♦ borne in upon ♦ cushion borne ♦ water borne. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BORNE": air-borne, carrier-borne, food-borne, helicopter-borne, insect-borne, louse-borne, rail-borne, sea-borne, ship-borne, water-borne, wind-borne. | |
Containing "BORNE": Blood-Borne Pathogens, ground-borne controllability, Tick-Borne Diseases. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "BORNE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | notues (ball cock, buoyant, floatable, floater, floaty, natatorial, natatory, supernatant, water borne), i transportuar me rrugë ujore (water borne). (various references) | |
Arabic | منقول بالماء (water borne). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | роден (born, domestic, german, germane, home, home-bred, native, natural, own, vernacular, whole), от рождение (born). (various references) | |
Chinese | 负担 (Born, Burden, Burdened, Burdening). (various references) | |
Czech | narozen (born). (various references) | |
Danish | skrogbaaren (hull borne), luftpudebaaren (cushion borne), eventuelle bevillingsoverskridelser afholdes af (cost overruns incurred shall be borne by), de aktuarmæssige reserver til dækning af løbende risici hos forsikringsselskaberne kan være:-nettoreserver:dvs.udregnet på basis af nettopræmierne;-statusreserver:dvs.udregnet på basis af præmier plus alle forsikringsselskabernes administrative om (calculated on the basis of premiums including the administrative costs borne by the insurers except for the costs of acquiring contracts;-complete:that is, calculated on the basis of pure premiums;-inventory;that is, established on the basis of premiums including all administrative costs borne by the insurer, the actuarial reserves against outstanding risks held by insurers may be:-pure;that is). (various references) | |
Dutch | wiskundige reserves voor lopende risico's bij verzekeraars kunnen zijn:-nettoreserves,d.w.z.berekend aan de hand van de nettopremies,-inventarisreserves,d.w.z.berekend aan de hand van de premies inclusief alle administratiekosten,met uitzondering van de k (calculated on the basis of premiums including the administrative costs borne by the insurers except for the costs of acquiring contracts;-complete:that is, calculated on the basis of pure premiums;-inventory;that is, established on the basis of premiums including all administrative costs borne by the insurer, the actuarial reserves against outstanding risks held by insurers may be:-pure;that is), indien de toegestane kredieten worden overschreden,komen die overschrijdingen voor rekening van (cost overruns incurred shall be borne by). (various references) | |
Farsi | تحمل کرده یاشده , اسم مفعول فعلraeb . (various references) | |
Finnish | ilmatyynyllä leijunta (cushion borne), ilmatyynyllä ajo (cushion borne). (various references) | |
French | aérien. (various references) | |
German | getragen (beared, carried, hand-me-downs, languorous, majestic, plangent, second hand, stately, wore, worn). (various references) | |
Greek | παθ. μετ. του bear. (various references) | |
Hebrew | עמוס (burdened, carried, laden, loaded), שוא (carried, married). (various references) | |
Hungarian | visz (bear, bore, carry, take, to bear, to direct, to propagate, to tote, wear), visel (bear, bore, to bear, to port, to wear, wear, wore, worn), termel (bore, to bear, to churn out, to crop, to generate, to rear, to run up), tart (bore, continue, endure, head for, hold, keep, keep on, last, make for, sustain, tend, to bear, to check, to cultivate, to hold out, to keep back, to keep off, to make for, to regard, to support, to sustain, trend, uphold), korlátolt (blunt-witted, fatuous, illiberal, limited, narrow minded, narrow-minded, obtuse, one track, petty-minded, philistine), kibír (bear, bore, stick it out, sustain, to bear, to do with, to stomach, to sustain), hoz (bore, born, bring, to bear, to bring in, to land, to release, to spawn, to tree, to warm), hord (bear, bore, carry, hold, to bear, to carry, to cart, to convey, to tote, wear), elvisel (abide, bear, bore, endure, stood, suffer, sustain, to abide, to bear, to comport, to endure, to stand, to stomach, to support, to take it, to tolerate, tolerate, undergo), eltűr (bore, born, to abide, to admit of, to bear, to brook, to support), cipel (bear, bore, carry, to bear, to carry, to lug, to tote, tote). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tertanggung (endured). (various references) | |
Italian | sospensione su scafo (hull borne), sospensione su cuscino (cushion borne), le riserve matematiche detenute dagli organismi assicuratori possono essere:-pure:vale a dire calcolate sulla base dei premi puri;-d'inventario:cioè calcolate sulla base dei premi caricati di tutte le spese di carattere amministrativo che gravano sugli o (calculated on the basis of premiums including the administrative costs borne by the insurers except for the costs of acquiring contracts;-complete:that is, calculated on the basis of pure premiums;-inventory;that is, established on the basis of premiums including all administrative costs borne by the insurer, i.e.inclusive of the costs of acquiring contracts, the actuarial reserves against outstanding risks held by insurers may be:-pure;that is), i superi intervenuti sono a carico (cost overruns incurred shall be borne by), arbovirus (arbovirus, arthropod borne virus). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "腹 (woman who has borne only male children), 懐抱 (idea borne in mind). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おと"ばら (woman who has borne only male children), かいほう (breakwater, bulletin, circular, circulating letter, coast battery, convalescence, emancipation, evolution, extraction of roots, good news, idea borne in mind, liberalization, liberation, looking after, nursing, open, release, reply, report, solution, throw open). (various references) | |
Korean | '" (Born, Cherished). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ornebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cantil (canteen, cantel, flask, water-borne, water-bottle), as reservas matemáticas para riscos em curso detidos pelos organismos seguradores podem ser:-puras:isto é,calculadas com base nos prémios puros-de inventário:isto é,calculados com base nos prémios onerados de todos os custos de carácter administrat (calculated on the basis of premiums including the administrative costs borne by the insurers except for the costs of acquiring contracts;-complete:that is, calculated on the basis of pure premiums;-inventory;that is, established on the basis of premiums including all administrative costs borne by the insurer, i.e.inclusive of the costs of acquiring contracts, the actuarial reserves against outstanding risks held by insurers may be:-pure;that is). (various references) | |
Romanian | participiu trecut de la bear (born). (various references) | |
Russian | ограниченный (blinkered, bound, clannish, confined, cramped, finite, groovy, handicapped, hidebound, illiberal, incapacious, limitary, limited, limited to, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow gauge, narrow minded, narrow-minded, one track, parochial, qualified, restrained, restricted, scant, scanty, small minded, small-scale). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nošen. (various references) | |
Spanish | pp de bear (born). (various references) | |
Swedish | buren (carried, jankers). (various references) | |
Thai | กริยาช่องที่ 3 ของ bear. (various references) | |
Turkish | taşınmış, götürülmüş, doğmuş (born), dar kafalı (petty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | обмежений (bat-minded, confined, contracted, cramp, cramped, finite, illiberal, insular, limited, local, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-ideaed, one-liner, parochial, pinched, provincial, pure, qualified, restrained, restricted, restrictive, scant, shallow-brained, simple minded, small, small-scale, straitened, terminate). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhăn nhó (bear, glum), gắt như mắm tôm liều vô ích (bear), con gấu người thô lỗ (bear), chưa đẻ đã đặt tên cau có (bear). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 2, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ercontai proV auton paralutikon feronteV airomenon upo tessarwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et venerunt ferentes ad eum paralyticum qui a quattuor portabatur |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & hyo comen ænne lame man to himberende. þane feower men bæren. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And there camen to hym men that brouyten a man sijk in palesie, which was borun of foure. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And there came vnto him that brought one sicke of the palsie borne of fower men. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they come to him, bringing one sick with the palsy, who was borne by four. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And four men came to him with one on a bed who had no power of moving. |
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| Language | Mark Chapter 2, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | Ug didtoy nangabut nga nanagdala kaniyag usa ka paralitico nga giyayongan sa upat ka tawo. |
| Chinese | 有 人 帶 著 一 個 癱 子 來 見 耶 穌 、 是 " 四 個 人 抬 來 的 。 |
| Croatian | I doðu noseæi k njemu uzetoga. Nosila ga èetvorica. |
| Danish | Og de komme og bringe til ham en værkbruden, der blev båren af fire. |
| Dutch | En er kwamen sommigen tot Hem, brengende een geraakte, die van vier gedragen werd. |
| Finnish | Ja he tulivat tuoden hänen tykönsä halvattua, jota kantamassa oli neljä miestä. |
| French | Des gens vinrent lui, amenant un paralytique porté par quatre hommes. |
| Gaelic | Agus thainig iad ga ionnsuidh a toirt leo duine, air an robh am pairilis, air a ghiulan le ceathrar. |
| German | Und es kamen etliche zu ihm, die brachten einen Gichtbrüchigen, von vieren getragen. |
| Haitian Creole | Se lè sa a, yon kolonn moun vin rive, kat ladan yo t'ap pote yon nonm paralize. Yo t'ap mennen l' bay Jezi. |
| Hungarian | És jövének hozzá egy gutaütöttet hozva, a kit négyen emelnek vala. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sementara Ia berbicara, empat orang mengusung seorang lumpuh untuk membawanya kepada Yesus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka datanglah orang membawa ke hadapan-Nya seorang sakit tepok, diusung oleh empat orang. |
| Italian | Si recarono da lui con un paralitico portato da quattro persone. |
| Maori | Ka haere mai hoki etahi, ka kawe mai i tetahi pararutiki ki a ia, tokowha ki te kauhoa. |
| Norwegian | Og de kom til ham med en verkbrudden, som blev båret av fire mann; |
| Portuguese | Nisso vieram alguns a trazer-lhe um paralítico, carregado por quatro; |
| Rumanian | Au venit la el niwte oameni, cari I-au adus un slqbqnog, purtat de patru inwi. |
| Shuar | Nuinkia ni amikrin emearun kuatru shuar tampumpruawar Júkiar Jesusan itiariarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces vinieron a él trayendo a un paralítico cargado por cuatro. |
| Swahili | wakati mtu mmoja aliyepooza alipoletwa kwake akiwa amechukuliwa na watu wanne. |
| Swedish | Då kommo de till honom med en lam man, som bars dit av fyra män. |
| Uma | Bula-na mololita tohe'e, tumai opo' tauna mpokowa' doo-ra to pungku. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BORNE": borneol, borneols. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BORNE": airborne, forborne, overborne, seaborne, shipborne, skyborne, soilborne, upborne, waterborne. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BORNE": stubborner, stubbornest, suborned, suborner, suborners. (additional references) | |
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"BORNE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: banre, barene, barne, Beirne, Beornred, beren, Berna, Bernay, bernes, Bernet, berno, Blorenge, bodne, boeren, Boerner, Bohnen, Bohnke, bor, borane, borange, borbe, borde, boren, borie, borine, Borle, Bornat, borned, Borner, bornes, Bornet, bornn, Borno, Borns, Bornu, borny, borre, Borve, Botna, Bouna, Brkne, brno, Brogne, brone, Brosna, burne, Burnu, byrne, byrnie, norne, obene, oborknez, orne, orni, sorne, torne, worne, zorne. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BORNE" (pronounced bô"rn) |
| 4 | b ô" r n | born, Bourn, Bourne, lowborn, reborn, stillborn, unborn, wellborn. |
| 3 | -ô" r n | adorn, corn, forlorn, forsworn, horn, mourn, porn, scorn, shorn, sworn, thorn, torn, warn, worn. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: boner. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: bone, bore, born, bren, ebon, robe. | |
-2 letters: ben, bro, eon, ern, neb, nob, nor, obe, one, orb, ore, reb, rob, roe. | |
-3 letters: be, bo, en, er, ne, no, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bonder, boners, bonier, bonzer, borane, boreen, bourne, broken, bronze, enrobe, nobler, reborn, unrobe. | |
+2 letters: bandore, baronet, baronne, begroan, bethorn, bicorne, blonder, bonders, bonfire, bonkers, bonnier, boranes, boreens, borneol, bornite, bouncer, bounder, bournes, broaden, bromine, bronzed, bronzer, bronzes, browned, browner, brownie, burgeon, deboner, embrown, embryon, enrobed, enrober, enrobes, newborn, nobbier, nobbler, reboant, rebound, redbone, sorbent, unbroke, unrobed, unrobes, unsober, upborne. | |
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