Word Finder - lends

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To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

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I lent her 10 euros to pay for the train tickets, and she paid me back the next day.

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To make a loan.

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To be suitable or applicable, to fit.

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Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily.

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To afford; to grant or furnish in general.

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Can you lend me some assistance?

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To borrow.

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Loins

The very word lends itself to this mistake.

The situation of the lateral nervestems in the different genera with respect to the muscular layers lends definite support to the interpretation of their homologies here given and forms the basis of Burger's classification.

Thus the botanical evidence seems to indicate that the wild almond is the source of cultivated almonds, peaches and nectarines, and consequently that the peach was introduced from Asia Minor or Persia, whence the name Persica given to the peach; and Aitchison's discovery in Afghanistan of a form which reminded him of a wild peach lends additional force to this view.

The golf-course at Kilchattan lends a touch of modernity to these remote islands.

Although religious animosities between Christian nations have died out, although dynasties may now rise and fall without raising half Europe to arms, the springs of warlike enterprise are still to be found in commercial jealousies, in imperialistic ambitions and in the doctrine of the survival of the fittest which lends scientific support to both.

The passage, thus interpreted, lends additional weight to the correctness of Dr Ethe's reconstruction of the date of the Rushanainama, viz.

In places where work is carried on day and night throughout the week, the standard type of evaporator lends itself more readily to cleaning operations than any other.

The tree lends itself with peculiar readiness to the skilfu manipulation of- the gardener, and is by him trained into shapes of remarkable grace.

The age distribution of the population of Ireland lends some support to this view.

Christians ought to be taught that he who gives to a poor man or lends to the needy does better than if he bought pardons.

The word may have some connexion with a corruption of Visigoth, a suggestion to which the use in the Girard romance lends colour.

This may not necessarily be true, but the acid variety lends itself more readily to excellence than the basic. A very large proportion of ores.

The colour is a light fawn, but it is so pale that it lends itself to be dyed any colour.

On the continent of Europe the classic example is still the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where, however, system lends more of formality than of beauty to the general effect.

Thus Kandahar becomes a sort of focus of all the direct routes converging from the wide-stretching western frontier of India towards Herat and Persia, and the fortress of Kandahar gives protection on the one hand to trade between Hindustan and Herat, and on the other it lends to Kabul security from invasion by way of Herat.

The large employment of cast iron is comparatively modern, in England at least only dating from the i 6th century; it is not, however, incapable of artistic treatment if due regard be paid to the necessities of casting, and if no attempt is made to imitate the fine-drawn lightness to which wrought iron so readily lends itself.

The only way in which the Leblanc process could still hold its own was by being turned in the direction of making caustic soda, to which it lends itself more easily than the ammonia-soda process; but the latter has invaded even this field.

This was a process extending over three or four centuries, in which no one date lends itself to the historian.

There is much in the imperial and papal histories that is merely spectacular and romantic; much that appeals to the imagination and lends itself to myth; and since the sources are abundant - the papal archives inexhaustible and the German chronicles easily accessible - an undue emphasis has been placed upon them.

Again, the conception of a force as concentrated in a mathematical line is as unreal as that of a mass concentrated in a point, but it is a convenient fiction for our purpose, .owing to the simplicity which it lends to our statements.

The above method lends itself naturally to the investigation of the critical forms of a frame whose general structure is given.

Acceleration Image.Although it is possible to obtain the acceleration of points in a kinematic chain with one link fixed by methods which utilize the instantaneous centres of the chain, the vector method more readily lends itself to this purpose.

The term is used in Bombay, Madras and Bengal to denote a considerable number of castes of moderate respectability, the higher of whom are considered ` clean ' Sudras, while the precise status of the lower is a question which lends itself to endless controversy."In northern and north-western India, on the other hand," the grade next below the twice-born rank is occupied by a number of castes from whose hands Brahmans and members of the higher castes will take water and certain kinds of sweetmeats.

It lends no support to Neumayr's theory of climatic zones.

The physical ground work lends a religious sanction to all moral duties, and Cleanthes's noble hymn is evidence how far a system of natural religion could go in providing satisfaction for the cravings of.

In another form of the experiment, which, though perhaps less striking to the eye, lends itself better to investigation, the collision takes place between two still unresolved jets issuing horizontally from glass nozzles in communication with reservoirs containing water.

What lends additional interest to the story is the fact that in the ambassador's suite there was an interpreter named Vigilas, who for fifty pounds of gold had promised to assassinate Attila.

It is true that, as a matter of fact, the earliest uses of the word (the verb /xXoa04Eiv occurs in Herodotus and Thucydides) imply the idea of the pursuit of knowledge; but the distinction between the aogios, or wise man, and the 4nXoaoa50s, or lover of wisdom, appears first in the Platonic writings, and lends itself naturally to the so-called Socratic irony.

The total number of agricultural co-operative societies exceeded 500 in 1910; each has its tribunal (Conseil des Prud'hommes), which arbitrates in disputes; and all together, with the state-aided Cooperative Caisse, which lends money to the smaller societies, form a single great organization known as the General Union.

The Mortgage Bank (Uprava Fondova), founded in 1862, is a state institution which lends money for agricultural operations, &c. The Export Bank, founded in 1901, is a private bank under state supervision, with branches in Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, &c. Its chief object is the furtherance of Servian foreign commerce.

The Privilegium is undoubtedly spurious, a fact which lends weight to the arguments of those who from the 29th century onwards have attacked the genuineness of the " Bull."

Very generally, especially in the butte regions, the country lends itself to the impounding of surface water.

A large plume of black smoke lends some credence to her story.

The coaxial arrangement is of particular interest in this context, as its essentially cylindrical form factor lends itself to packaging into munitions.

Has adjustable straps for custom fit and its rich iridescent tone lends elegance to this camisole.

He said it was unfair to Mr Major, which only goes to show how distance lends enchantment to the view.

Warp's Jamie Lidell co-wrote several of the tracks and lends his trademark falsetto to one.

Her acoustic, almost folksy based, country music lends itself to the modern sound.

Center the outage lends itself well phil ivey Howard.

Entertaining at ExCel London's state-of-the-art conference and exhibition center in Docklands naturally lends itself to entertaining on the water.

The most demanding day was the ascent of Piz Buin (the mountain that lends its name to the sun-tan lotion ).

Once again the critical realist stratified ontology lends itself to a particular slant on this issue.

The melodic ' sigh ' (79) of a falling 5th lends pathos to the piece.

Maybury's inclusion of an unlikely romantic subplot, however, lends ambiguity to an otherwise bleak story.

On the surface, the lecture is not a teaching method that lends itself easily to language teaching.

The coopting of tribal leaders also lends a veneer of respectability to the occupation forces.

The fact that the old designs were successful lends weight to the usefulness of the design assumptions.

The dignity with which the Ottoman sultans have thereby become invested lends them that prestige throughout the Mussulman world which is of such importance to the present day, and which has thrown into oblivion the condition that the caliph ought to be an Arab of the tribe of Koreish.

The exceptions are chiefly to be found in the higher and mode poetical strains of feeling to which the humorist temperament lends itself with reluctance and distrust, though it by no means excludes them.

The park is complemented by an 80 acre farm, which lends itself as a rambler 's paradise.