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Lend (noun)
The lumbar region; loin.
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Lend (noun)
The loins; flank; buttocks.
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Lend (verb)
To 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.”
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Lend (verb)
To make a loan.
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Lend (verb)
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.”
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Lend (verb)
To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
“Can you lend me some assistance?”
“The famous director lent his name to the new film.”
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Lend (verb)
To borrow.
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Borrow (verb)
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
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Borrow (verb)
To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
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Borrow (verb)
To adopt (an idea) as one’s own.
“to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another”
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Borrow (verb)
To adopt a word from another language.
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Borrow (verb)
In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
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Borrow (verb)
To lend.
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Borrow (verb)
To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
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Borrow (verb)
To feign or counterfeit.
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Borrow (noun)
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.”
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Borrow (noun)
A borrow pit.
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Borrow (noun)
A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
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Borrow (noun)
A surety; someone standing bail.
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Lend (verb)
grant to (someone) the use of (something) on the understanding that it will be returned
“Stewart asked me to lend him my car”
“the pictures were lent to each museum in turn”
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Lend (verb)
allow (a person or organization) the use of (a sum of money) under an agreement to pay it back later, typically with interest
“banks lend only to their current account customers”
“no one would lend him the money”
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Lend (verb)
contribute or add (a quality) to
“the smile lent his face a boyish charm”
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Lend (verb)
accommodate or adapt oneself to
“John stiffly lent himself to her aromatic embraces”
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Lend (verb)
(of a thing) be suitable for
“bay windows lend themselves to blinds”