borrow

emprunter

Prendre et utiliser quelque chose qui appartient à quelqu’un d’autre, en prévoyant de le rendre.

En anglais simple : To take and use something belonging to someone else, intending to give it back.

• Can I borrow your pen?
• She borrowed a bike from her neighbour.
• We need to borrow money to repair the roof.

Comment l'utiliser : borrow something from someone (I borrowed a ladder from my uncle.)

Contraires : lend

Expressions courantes : borrow a book, borrow from someone, borrow some money, borrow a car

emprunter, reprendre

Utiliser dans son propre travail une idée, une expression ou un style venant de quelqu’un d’autre.

En anglais simple : To use someone else’s idea, phrase, or style in your own work.

• She borrowed an idea from the film.
• The designer borrows patterns from traditional art.
• May I borrow your phrase for my title?

Comment l'utiliser : borrow something from someone/something (The author borrowed the plot from an old folk tale.)

Synonymes : adopt, take

Expressions courantes : borrow an idea, borrow a phrase, borrow from someone

emprunter

Prendre un mot d’une autre langue pour l’utiliser dans la sienne.

En anglais simple : To take a word from another language and use it in your own language.

• English borrowed this word from French.
• Languages often borrow words for new foods.
• The term was borrowed from Arabic centuries ago.

Comment l'utiliser : borrow something from a language (Japanese has borrowed many words from English.)

Synonymes : adopt

Expressions courantes : borrow a word, borrow from French, borrow foreign words

pente, déviation

Courbure latérale du trajet d’une balle qui roule, causée par la pente du terrain, notamment au golf.

En anglais simple : The sideways turn of a rolling ball’s path caused by sloping ground, especially in golf.

• This putt has some borrow.
• She allowed for the borrow when aiming.
• The slope creates a slight borrow to the left.

Synonymes : break

Expressions courantes : allow for borrow, leftward borrow, read the borrow