borrow
/ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/ noun C2- Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant. · This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.
- A borrow pit.
- In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
Plural borrows
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I must live henceforth without rank and fortune, and to begin this hard apprenticeship I must borrow from a friend the loaf I shall eat until I have earned one.
“Well, I’ll borrow that if I may.”
Blewett went out in quest of a recipe the latter had come to borrow, she sprang up and flew across the room to Marilla.
I’m going up to see if I can borrow a skirt pattern from Mrs.
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