Lent vs Gent - What's the difference?
lent | gent |
(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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To make a loan.
(reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
* Addison
* J. A. Symonds
(proscribed) To borrow.
(obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
* Chaucer
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant
* Spenser
As a verb lent
is past tense of lend.As a proper noun Lent
is period of penitence for Christians before Easter.As a noun gent is
a gentleman.As an adjective gent is
noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.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 backgent
English
Etymology 1
From gentleman .Etymology 2
From (etyl) gent, ultimately from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- A knight [who] was fair and gent .
- He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent , / That him againe lou'd in the least degree [...].
- Her body gent and small.