(v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.
(v. t.) To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the return of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food.
(v. t.) To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend one's name or influence.
(v. t.) To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross mortgage lending stood at £7.9bn in April compared with £8.7bn in March and a six-month average of £9.9bn.
(2) It has also been given to Sir Andrew Large, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose report on lending failures by RBS will also be released on Monday.
(3) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(4) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(5) Unsecured lending rose slightly during the month, with outstanding debt increasing by £331m, after contracting by £114m in April.
(6) Finally, because of its logicomathematical foundation, the systemal approach lends itself readily to application of computer techniques.
(7) Even so, the FLS has been slow to increase lending to small businesses.
(8) These findings lend new support to the assumption of the bifunctional property of IGFBP-3, which would have an effect outside the cell (binding of IGF in the medium) and another effect within cells or on the surface.
(9) This study lends further support to the hypothesis that the putative role of the red-cell metabolic injury in the origin of haemolysis in ZS cannot be envisaged without introducing membrane-linked and extracellular cofactors.
(10) These results emphasize the potential importance of LPL-mediated lipid assimilation in the metabolic events that lead to energy production in response to environmental stresses and lend support to the notion that the regulation of LPL activity is tissue specific.
(11) The CML said the value of lending for house purchases was up by 8% year on year in May, at £9.4bn, while the number of loans grew by 5% to 53,800.
(12) Our results indicate that lead compounds may be genotoxic by an indirect mechanism, and lend support to the view that lead is a carcinogen.
(13) By virtue of the technique, minimal incision surgery lends itself to a greater risk of causing epidermal inclusion cysts.
(14) If a bank does not meet the commitment, its chief executive and senior managers responsible for business lending will not receive the maximum pay and bonus as a result."
(15) Combined with the evidence of genetic and psychometric studies, our results lend further support to the hypothesis that left hemisphere functioning in schizophrenia is impaired.
(16) A new website aims to help people reconnect with their neighbours through a lending and borrowing scheme.
(17) These results lend support to the assumption that the mechanical and vascular mechanisms responsible for lesions in both groups of patients may differ in nature or occur in a different sequence.
(18) Why isn't it more concerned that the government's Funding for Lending scheme appears to be driving mortgage lending over SME loans?
(19) This arrangement is different from that seen in the alpha and gamma herpesvirus families, lending further support to the notion that HHV-6 is a member of the beta herpesvirus group.
(20) That the various leukotriene components of SRS-A have unique receptors on responding tissues and are recoverable from airway surfaces in several inflammatory lung diseases and that several resident and infiltrating cell types have significant potential for leukotriene biosynthesis lend further support to their postulated pathobiologic roles.
Leno
Definition:
(n.) A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.
Example Sentences:
(1) Leverkusen had their goalkeeper Bernd Leno to thank for a fine late save from Léo Baptistão but their night ended on a sour note when Tin Jedvaj received a second booking in injury time.
(2) Leno's audience, admittedly, is never very hard to excite – you get whoops and cheers just for being Vin Diesel or Jessica Alba, never mind the president of the United States – but frequently they rose to their feet, applauding wildly.
(3) Asked about Mourdock's comment on The Tonight Show, Obama told host Jay Leno: "Rape is rape.
(4) On his first live TV appearance in the US (on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show) he played up the confused foreigner shtick, picking holes in the concept of “African-Americans”.
(5) As Jay Leno remarked about the Bill Cosby situation this week: “You go to Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man; here, you need 25.” Even so, you can’t be too careful.
(6) Jokes about him abounded on late night comedy shows well into the following decade – Letterman, Leno and even on Saturday Night Live.
(7) Asked about the issue by Jay Leno on his Tonight Show, Obama added: "I think they understand that for most of the countries that participate in the Olympics, we wouldn't tolerate gays and lesbians being treated differently."
(8) Obama's long-awaited visit to the Los Angeles studio of NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno was a highly non-traditional venture for a serving president.
(9) In February, longtime rival Jay Leno turned over the Tonight Show to current host Jimmy Fallon.
(10) ("We were going to have vice-president Biden come on and say a few words," Leno quipped, "but, you know, it's only an hour show.")
(11) Since Leno’s departure in February, which saw Jimmy Fallon take over at the Tonight Show, Letterman has been in second place in the ratings to Jimmy Kimmel’s LA-based late night show which airs in the same slot.
(12) Roma picked up where they left off after half time and a scintillating run by Gervinho required another good save from Leno, but the keeper was helpless when Pjanic curled his free kick over the wall.
(13) That snub saw Jay Leno take over from Carson and started a late night ratings war which raged throughout the 90s and saw Leno dominate for the most part.
(14) The irony is, for decades we’ve hankered after a Brit answer to Leno or David Letterman.
(15) The Leverkusen captain was shown a straight red card and Pjanic beat Leno from the spot.
(16) If either were to get the job, they would be up against Jimmy Fallon, newly installed in Jay Leno's The Tonight Show chair at NBC.
(17) Counterattacking at pace, Salah’s shot beat Bernd Leno after he was played in by a superb pass from Dzeko on two minutes.
(18) By then, Noah had become a frequent contributor and had also appeared as a guest on the Jay Leno and David Letterman shows.
(19) Asked about the announcement by Jay Leno, Obama looked unfazed and appeared unlikely to rise to the bait.
(20) Noah, who has appeared on Jay Leno and David Letterman, was the subject of a 2011 documentary film by David Paul Meyer, You Laugh But It’s True, which followed his career in post-apartheid South Africa.