lend
To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
Verb 4 meanings
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.”
To make a loan.
To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
“Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily.”
To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
“Can you lend me some assistance?”
Etymology
From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English lǣnan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijaną (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave, leave over”).
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LEND at a glance
LEND has 4 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (L 1 + E 1 + N 1 + D 2) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,935 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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