Definitions from Wiktionary (Borrow)
▸ verb: To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
▸ verb: To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
▸ verb: To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
▸ verb: (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
▸ verb: (arithmetic) 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.
▸ verb: (Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, proscribed) To lend.
▸ verb: (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
▸ verb: To feign or counterfeit.
▸ verb: (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
▸ verb: (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
▸ verb: (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
▸ verb: (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
▸ noun: (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
▸ noun: (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
▸ noun: (programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
▸ noun: (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
▸ noun: (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
▸ noun: A surname.
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▸ verb: To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
▸ verb: To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
▸ verb: To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
▸ verb: (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
▸ verb: (arithmetic) 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.
▸ verb: (Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, proscribed) To lend.
▸ verb: (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
▸ verb: To feign or counterfeit.
▸ verb: (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
▸ verb: (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
▸ verb: (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
▸ verb: (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
▸ noun: (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
▸ noun: (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
▸ noun: (programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
▸ noun: (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
▸ noun: (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ Also see borrow
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