lend
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old English lænan.
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[edit] Verb
lend (third-person singular simple present lends, present participle lending, simple past and past participle lent, archaic third-person singular simple present lendeth)
- (transitive) to allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
- I will only lend you my car if you fill up the tank.
- I lent her 10 euros to pay for the train tickets, and she paid me back the next day.
- (intransitive) to make a loan
- (Australian) to be misled in a jocular or teasing manner
- Don't listen to him. He's having a lend of you
- Don't get upset, I was just having a lend.
- (reflexive) to be suitable or applicable, to fit
- Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily.
- The long history of the past does not lend itself to a simple black and white interpretation.
- (proscribed) to borrow
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[edit] Translations
to allow to be used temporarily
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- lend in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- lend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[edit] Estonian
[edit] Noun
lend (??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)
[edit] Declension
- This Estonian entry needs a declension template
