borrow
verb
[ ˈbɒrəʊ ]
• take and use (something belonging to someone else) with the intention of returning it.
• "he had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues"
Similar:
take,
take for oneself,
help oneself to,
use as one's own,
abscond with,
carry off,
appropriate,
commandeer,
abstract,
steal,
purloin,
shoplift,
filch,
rob,
swipe,
nab,
rip off,
lift,
liberate,
snaffle,
snitch,
nick,
pinch,
half-inch,
whip,
knock off,
nobble,
bone,
scrump,
bag,
blag,
heist,
glom,
snavel,
tief,
crib,
hook,
• allow (a certain distance) when playing a shot to compensate for sideways motion of the ball due to a slope or other irregularity.
borrow
noun
• a slope or other irregularity on a golf course which must be compensated for when playing a shot.
Origin:
Old English borgian ‘borrow against security’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German borgen .
