Lent vs Lect - What's the difference?
lent | lect |
(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.
(linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific form of a language or : a language or a dialect.
* 1980 , Frederick B. Agard, The Genealogy of the French Language'', published in ''Contributions to historical linguistics (ISBN 90-04-06130-4), page 222:
As a proper noun lent
is period of penitence for christians before easter.As a noun lect is
(linguistics|sociolinguistics) a specific form of a language or : a language or a dialect.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
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- 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 backlect
English
(wikipedia lect)Noun
(en noun)- These, together with (some) Romansh lects', belong to our West Rhaetian; the /?/ also supported by two '''lects''' from the Ticino which by our criteria are NWIt, and by the partially umlauting '''lects''' of Lombardy which together with (some) Engadine ' lects belong to our East Rhaetian.