📚 To use and return 💡 To copy 💻 To access temporarily

to borrow

9 7.2

To use a temporary link to data while its owner keeps control

verb
/ˈbɔroʊ/

Specialized

: tomar prestado (informática)

So here we decide in which node we borrow a field.
borrow money
borrowed funds

Examples

I have borrowed your machine to communicate with you.

The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)
Can I borrow your flashlight?

Bad Company (2018)
I ask that if you'd like to borrow a photo, you ask permission first.

Blog text (14)
When India goes to borrow money to build solar farms or wind farms, they have to pay 13% plus an FX uncertainty.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
Today, nearly three-quarters of students graduating from four-year private nonprofit colleges have borrowed for their undergraduate education.

Academic text (2016)
In programming, you can borrow a variable temporarily to manipulate its value without changing the original data.
When you borrow a reference in Rust, you are allowed to read or modify the value without taking ownership of it.
To optimize memory usage, the function can borrow the input data instead of copying it.

Compounds

borrow pit

Specialized

1 8.1

A hole that people dig to take soil or gravel for building work

Surface Forms

borrow infinitive

borrowed past

borrowed past participle

borrowing present participle

borrows third person singular

Etymology

In computing, to borrow uses the same idea of short use: it means getting permission to use a value for a short time while the original owner keeps it, like borrowing a book from a library.