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Mending vs Lending - What's the difference?

mending | lending |

As verbs the difference between mending and lending

is that mending is present participle of lang=en while lending is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between mending and lending

is that mending is the act by which something is mended or repaired while lending is action of the verb to lend.

As an adjective lending is

that lends.

mending

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is mended or repaired.
  • * 1844 , Edmund Leahy, A Practical Treatise on Making and Repairing Roads (page 133)
    • This road though frequently repaired had been nevertheless but little the better for the frequent mendings

    lending

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • That lends.
    • a lending library

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb to lend .
  • *{{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.}}

    Verb

    (head)