Rend vs Lent - What's the difference?
rend | lent |
To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 317:
To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
(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.
As verbs the difference between rend and lent
is that rend is to separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst while lent is past tense of lend.As a proper noun Lent is
period of penitence for Christians before Easter.rend
English
Verb
- Powder rends a rock in blasting.
- Lightning rends an oak.
- If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
- We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.
- Relationships may rend if tempers flare.
- Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.
Anagrams
* English irregular verbs ----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.