0 to give something to someone for a short period of time, expecting it to be given back: --
[ + two objects ] The bank agreed to lend him $5,000.
[ + two objects ] If you need a coat I can lend you one/lend one to you.
She doesn't like lending her books.
1 If something lends a particular quality to something else, it adds that quality to it: --
2 If something lends itself to something else, it is suitable for that thing or can be considered in that way: --
The novel's complex, imaginative style does not lend itself to translation.
3 to give something to someone for a short period of time, expecting it to be given back: --
4 if a bank or other financial organization lends money to someone, it gives them money for a period of time which they then pay back with interest: --
lend to sb/sth Banks have been heavily criticized for lending to people who cannot afford the repayments.
lend sb $5,000/£2bn/€1m, etc. A number of prominent businessmen are rumoured to have lent the Party over £20 million.
lend $5,000/£2bn/€1m, etc. to sb The Ohio Development Financing Advisory Council agreed to lend $20 million to the Port Authority.
Britain's building societies chiefly lend money for house purchase.
5 to give someone something for a period of time, after which they will give it back to you: --
Few terms lent themselves to being declared one-to-one.
Metaphors do not poverty make, but through cultural discourse practices are valorized, options legitimated and statuses lent prestige or disparagement.
Robots cannot replace syntactic models; but they can instantiate them, as a slide rule does the logarithm, lending credibility.
Students also continue throughout the semester to participate in one or two activities from their first rotation, lending some continuity to the practicum experience.
In addition, the medical profession showed more competence in giving direction to unstructured discussions, and in lending significance to the issue in general.
Obviously, the design also lends itself to evaluating the effects of various mediators and moderators of outcome.
The thing to be contradicted has to be strong, so that it lends its weight to the subversion of it.
Neither the one nor the other lends itself to transparent deductive or narrative presentation.
