English Dictionary

borrow

/ˈbɒɹ.əʊ/

noun

(golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant. / (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.

I need to borrow a golf club for the tournament.

意味（1）

(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.

意味（2）

(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.

意味（3）

(programming) In the Rust programming language, 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).