Lent vs Lint - What's the difference?
lent | lint |
(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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, 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.
a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds
clinging fuzzy fluff that accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc
the fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant
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 lint is
a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.lent
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Verb
(head)lend
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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.