What's the difference between lends and vends?

Lends


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Loins.

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.

Vends


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) See Wends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
  • (2) Last year, at the suggestion of Selfridges, Hook installed and supplied a raw milk vending machine at the flagship store on Oxford Street – a novel way to sell direct to customers, as the law requires.
  • (3) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
  • (4) A survey conducted in 1983 revealed that the majority of the student body knew about the vending machine.
  • (5) The facility stresses self-care, and a bulletin board located near the vending machine provides numerous health education brochures.
  • (6) Instead of fostering dependency on the nursing staff the vending machine helps the students become self-reliant in reference to assessing their own health needs.
  • (7) Will the new coin fit parking and vending machines?
  • (8) As for the sanitation control of vending machines examined, 66 to 74% percent were unsatisfactory.
  • (9) Under the national rules, which are applied to other state schools, vending machines can only sell healthy snacks such as fruit, nuts and bottles of water.
  • (10) At posttest 2 in May 1990, 24% sold tobacco over the counter and 93% sold tobacco through vending machines.
  • (11) However, these differences were not found in vending machine sales.
  • (12) Like most of the Caribbean, the majority of our population lives on our beautiful coastlines, where they depend on tourism, agriculture, beach-front vending and fishing for their livelihoods.
  • (13) More polymer notes can be stacked in ATMs than paper notes, and they don't jam vending machines in the same way.
  • (14) Among a cohort of stores visited by minors at the pretest (n = 104) in June 1988, 71% sold tobacco over the counter and 92% sold tobacco through vending machines.
  • (15) s-1) were found to be linearly correlated: vMIG = 1.12 + 0.64 vEND (r2 = 0.72; n = 36).
  • (16) Sent via Guardian Witness By Karthika Gopalakrishnan 22 May 2014, 5:55 Finally spare a thought for the Guardian staff, greeted with this from our vending machines every morning.
  • (17) They get stuck in the vacuum, my wife slipped on one and fell hard on the tile floor, and I keep unsuccessfully trying to use them in vending machines before realizing they aren't real money.
  • (18) The Tories would ban the practice of peer-to-peer marketing techniques targeted at children, and also work with headteachers to terminate contracts between schools and vending machine firms.
  • (19) The move to polymer notes will land shops and banks with a bill of up to £236m , it has been estimated, because ATMs, vending machines and self-service machines will need to be recalibrated to take the new plastic notes, which are 15% smaller than the current notes.
  • (20) (Hook complied, but still thinks vending machines could be “a great way forward” for small farmers.)

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