borrow
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
Verb 4 meanings
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.
“to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another”
To adopt a word from another language.
Noun 3 meanings
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.
Etymology
From Middle English borwen, from Old English borgian (“to borrow, lend, pledge surety for”), from Proto-West Germanic *borgōn, from Proto-Germanic *burgōną (“to pledge, take care of”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to take care”).
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BORROW at a glance
BORROW has 6 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (B 3 + O 1 + R 1 + R 1 + O 1 + W 4) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,990 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with borrow
All rhymes- TOMORROW13
- GROW8
- THROW11
- NARROW9
- ARROW8
- CROW9
- SORROW9
- OVERTHROW18
- BROW9
- MARROW11
- SPARROW12
- MORROW11
One letter away
- SORROW9
- MORROW11
- BARROW11
- BURROW11
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