Lent vs Charged - What's the difference?
lent | charged |
(lend)
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The lumbar region; loin.
The loins; flank; buttocks.
To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be ed.
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(reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
* Addison
* J. A. Symonds
(proscribed) To borrow.
(charge)
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As verbs the difference between lent and charged
is that lent is past tense of lend while charged is past tense of charge.As a proper noun Lent
is period of penitence for Christians before Easter.lent
English
Verb
(head)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)Etymology 2
From earlier len (with excrescent -d'', as in . See also (l).Verb
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 .}}
- Can you lend me some assistance?
- The famous director lent his name to the new film.
- Cato, lend me for a while thy patience.
- Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions.
Antonyms
* borrowDerived terms
* lend to believe * have a lendSee also
* give back * lender * loan * pay backcharged
English
Verb
(head)citation, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}