verb

• (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
  "Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military abbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”."
• (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, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
  "“Rosie, borrow me your look looker, I bet my lips are all. Everytime^([sic]) I eat or drink, so quick I gotta fix ’em, yet.”"
• (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
  "You must borrow me Garagantua's mouth first: 'tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's size: To say, ay, and no, to these particulars, is more than to answer in a catechism."

noun

• (golf, countable, uncountable) 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."
• (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
  "As previously indicated, slurry used for construction of the slurry cutoff trench at Beaver Creek Dam was produced with natural clays and clay tills from local borrows."
• (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
  "If we currently have any borrows of a value, we can't mutably borrow it into self, nor can we move it (because that would invalidate the existing borrows)."

noun

• (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
• (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
  "”where am I to find such a sum? If I sell the very pyx and candlesticks on the altar at Jorvaulx, I shall scarce raise the half; and it will be necessary for that purpose that I go to Jorvaulx myself; ye may retain as borrows my two priests.”"