borrow

IPA: bˈɑroʊ

(golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
(construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
(programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
(archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
A surname.

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 adopt (an idea) as one's own.
(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
(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.
(Upper Midwestern United States, West Midlands, Malaysia, proscribed) To lend.
(ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
To feign or counterfeit.
(obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
(informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
(informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
(golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.

Examples of "borrow" in Sentences

A gallery of idols with delicious flat chests, or to borrow a Japanese word, petanko.
“The money we borrow is going to be paid back through taxation in the future,” he says.
But to borrow from the Bard, here's the rub: some preserves list apricot first, followed by sugar.
Our deficit, national debt and the amount we have to borrow is in the news at the moment but how bad is it really?
Yes, we should all work together and the government should help where appropriate, but the government can only provide help with money we give them except when they borrow from the future.
Meanwhile, the witnesses of the rural wedding had all skedaddled -- to borrow a Greek word -- into the woods, in dire confusion, tearing dresses, pulling down 'back hair,' hitching hoop skirts, and tumbling over blackberry vines -- but each intent on increasing the distance from the mad cow.