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lend
verb (lent , lending )
1 to allow someone to use something on the understanding that it (or its equivalent) will be returned.
2 to give someone the use of an amount of money on the understanding that the same amount will be returned and interest paid on it.
3 to give or add (interest, beauty, etc) to something or someone The lighting lends a calming atmosphere .
[Anglo-Saxon lænan ]
lend a hand see under hand.
lend an ear see under ear.
lend itself to something to be suitable for (a purpose) The hall lends itself to staging live bands .
lend oneself to something to adapt oneself or set oneself up to be treated in a specified way He lends himself to ridicule .
verb (lent , lending )
1 to allow someone to use something on the understanding that it (or its equivalent) will be returned.
2 to give someone the use of an amount of money on the understanding that the same amount will be returned and interest paid on it.
3 to give or add (interest, beauty, etc) to something or someone The lighting lends a calming atmosphere .
[Anglo-Saxon lænan ]
lend a hand see under hand.
lend an ear see under ear.
lend itself to something to be suitable for (a purpose) The hall lends itself to staging live bands .
lend oneself to something to adapt oneself or set oneself up to be treated in a specified way He lends himself to ridicule .
lend, loan Lend is always a verb; loan can be used as a noun or a verb, although some people prefer lend to loan as the verb form in general senses. |
lender
noun someone who lends something, especially money.
noun someone who lends something, especially money.
lending library
noun a library from which books may be taken away to be read. Compare reference library.
noun a library from which books may be taken away to be read. Compare reference library.
lenes plural of lenis
length
noun
1 the distance from one end of an object to the other, normally the longest dimension.
2 (often in compounds ) the distance something extends a knee-length skirt .
3 the quality of being long.
4 a long piece of something or a stated amount of something long a length of rope .
5 the extent from end to end of a horse, boat, etc, as a way of measuring one participant's lead over another in a race won by two lengths .
6 (often in length) a stretch or extent The film was 90 minutes in length .
7 swimming
a the longer measurement of a swimming pool;
b this distance swum did twenty lengths a day .
8 in racket sports: the placing of a shot so as to land well into the opponent's court used topspin to get the length .
9 a an extent of time;
b phonetics , music the amount of time a vowel, syllable, note, etc sounds.
10 cricket the distance from the batsman at which the ball pitches.
[Anglo-Saxon lengthu ]
at length
1 in full.
2 at last.
3 monotonously and tediously went on at length about the golf .
go to great lengths or go to any length or lengths or go to all lengths to try all the possible ways of achieving something, even if it means going beyond expected or accepted boundaries.
the length and breadth of something the entire extent of it.
noun
1 the distance from one end of an object to the other, normally the longest dimension.
2 (often in compounds ) the distance something extends a knee-length skirt .
3 the quality of being long.
4 a long piece of something or a stated amount of something long a length of rope .
5 the extent from end to end of a horse, boat, etc, as a way of measuring one participant's lead over another in a race won by two lengths .
6 (often in length) a stretch or extent The film was 90 minutes in length .
7 swimming
a the longer measurement of a swimming pool;
b this distance swum did twenty lengths a day .
8 in racket sports: the placing of a shot so as to land well into the opponent's court used topspin to get the length .
9 a an extent of time;
b phonetics , music the amount of time a vowel, syllable, note, etc sounds.
10 cricket the distance from the batsman at which the ball pitches.
[Anglo-Saxon lengthu ]
at length
1 in full.
2 at last.
3 monotonously and tediously went on at length about the golf .
go to great lengths or go to any length or lengths or go to all lengths to try all the possible ways of achieving something, even if it means going beyond expected or accepted boundaries.
the length and breadth of something the entire extent of it.
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