borrow

prendere in prestito

Prendere e usare qualcosa che appartiene a un’altra persona, con l’intenzione di restituirlo.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: borrow something from someone (I borrowed a ladder from my uncle.)

Contrari: lend

Espressioni comuni: borrow a book, borrow from someone, borrow some money, borrow a car

prendere in prestito, adottare

Usare nel proprio lavoro un’idea, una frase o uno stile di qualcun altro.

In inglese semplice: 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?

Come si usa: borrow something from someone/something (The author borrowed the plot from an old folk tale.)

Sinonimi: adopt, take

Espressioni comuni: borrow an idea, borrow a phrase, borrow from someone

prendere in prestito, adottare

Prendere una parola da un’altra lingua e usarla nella propria.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: borrow something from a language (Japanese has borrowed many words from English.)

Sinonimi: adopt

Espressioni comuni: borrow a word, borrow from French, borrow foreign words

pendenza, deviazione

Curva laterale del percorso di una palla che rotola, causata dalla pendenza del terreno, soprattutto nel golf.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Sinonimi: break

Espressioni comuni: allow for borrow, leftward borrow, read the borrow