(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.
Spot
Definition:
(n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
(n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
(n.) A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
(n.) A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
(n.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
(n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
(n.) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
(n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
(v. t.) To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.
(v. t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
(v. i.) To become stained with spots.
Example Sentences:
(1) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.
(2) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(3) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
(4) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(5) Our findings: (1) both forms, LC1 and LC3, migrate in the two species with rather similar electrophoretic constants (both in terms of pI and Mr); (2) the LC2 forms of rabbit and humans exhibit the same Mr but quite different pI values, the rabbit forms being more acidic; (3) the chain LC2Sb is resolved into two spots in both rabbit and humans.
(6) You just have to be the first person to spot a coach.
(7) The overall effect achieved with LTS was less than that with LTP, but it is possible to reduce IOP by selecting more reasonable parameters, e.g., a laser setting of 200mW, a 50 microns spot size and a 0.5 to 1-sec duration.
(8) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
(9) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(10) Detection limits were then calculated for the different sizes of cold spots.
(11) These complications were believed to be caused by the use of a small spot size with high energy.
(12) In the brownish skin and in the black spots of the dorsal region all types of chromatophores are found.
(13) I can always spot something for my sisters Gretchen and Amy.
(14) Debeaking had no effect on the incidence of blood-spotting in the eggs.
(15) Six abnormal colonoscopic appearances were documented, namely mucosal edema, ulcers, friability, punctate spots, erythematous areas and luminal exudate.
(16) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(17) This appears to be a newly described entity, although it resembles a Becker's nevus without hypertrichosis or an typical café au lait spot.
(18) A £100,000 bronze statue of an ordinary family, the Joneses, will be unveiled in a prime spot outside the city’s library which opened last year.
(19) When delta phi was enlarged, first saccades were either directed near the green or the red spot (bistable response mode).
(20) Join us for a spot of future gazing as we discuss: The challenges and opportunities colleges and training providers will face over the next five years International expansion The role of FE in higher education New ways to diversify New technology – the possibilities and risks.