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Lend vs Loaned - What's the difference?

lend | loaned |

As verbs the difference between lend and loaned

is that lend is to allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be ed while loaned is (loan).

As a noun lend

is the lumbar region; loin.

lend

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lende (usually in plural as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from (etyl) lendenu, .

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland) * (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The lumbar region; loin.
  • The loins; flank; buttocks.

    • Etymology 2

    From earlier len (with excrescent -d'', as in . See also (l).

    Verb

  • To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be ed.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend .}}
  • To make a loan.
  • (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
  • To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
    • Can you lend me some assistance?
    The famous director lent his name to the new film.
  • * Addison
    • Cato, lend me for a while thy patience.
  • * J. A. Symonds
    • Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions.
  • (proscribed) To borrow.
    • Antonyms
    * borrow
    Derived terms
    * lend to believe * have a lend
    See also
    * give back * lender * loan * pay back

    References

    * * English irregular verbs 1000 English basic words ----

    loaned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (loan)

    • Anagrams

    *

    loan

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lone, lane, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (banking, finance) A sum of money or other valuables or consideration that an individual, group or other legal entity borrows from another individual, group or legal entity (the latter often being a financial institution) with the condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date (sometimes with interest).
  • *
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  • The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
  • The permission to borrow any item.
    • Hypernyms
    * (something that a legal entity borrows) bailment
    Hyponyms
    * (something that a legal entity borrows) mutuum
    Derived terms
    * bridge loan * caveat loan * loan shark * low-doc loan * swing loan

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lend (something) to (someone).
  • * 2006: — (unidentified episode, but frequently heard from her as a verb)
    • When you loan somebody something, they have the responsibility to safeguard it.
    Usage notes
    * This usage, once widespread in the UK, is now confined to the US (or perhaps parts thereof). * It is often considered preferable to use lend when the object being loaned or lent is something other than money.

    Etymology 2

    See lawn.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A lonnen.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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