Lend
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.
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.
To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend one's name or influence.
To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig.
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Lend Quotations
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne
To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
Edward Everett Hale
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates
I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
Elizabeth I
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana
Lend Translations
lend in Afrikaans is uitleen
lend in Dutch is lenen, voorschieten, uitlenen
lend in Finnish is lainata
lend in German is ausleihen, leihen, verleihen
lend in Italian is prestare, imprestare
lend in Latin is commodo, mutuo
lend in Portuguese is emprestar, empreste
lend in Spanish is prestar, prestar
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