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Definition: LENDS |
LENDSNoun plural1. Loins. |
Date "LENDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Distance | Phrase: "distance lends enchantment"; "it's a long long way to Tipperary"; out of sight, out of mind. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LENDS |
| English words defined with "LENDS": ADD, apply ♦ bestow, bring ♦ contribute ♦ impart ♦ lend, lend oneself, lender, Lendes, loan shark, loaner ♦ moneylender ♦ pawnbroker, photo op, photo opportunity ♦ shylock ♦ usurer ♦ wings. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LENDS": mortgage credit ♦ POLICE OFFICER, CRIME PREVENTION ♦ SLEEPING PARTNER, stimulated recombination. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "LENDS": loin. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Let me tell you one thing son. Nooobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor. (Head; writing credit: Jack Nicholson; Bob Rafelson) | |
Lyrics | Lends you a hand. ("Nowhere Man (Lennon/McCartney)"; performing artist: The Beatles) | |
Clever | A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Columbo: Death Lends a Hand (1971) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A young Vietnamese refugee lends a helping hand to a sailor chipping paint on board USS Bayfield (APA-33), while enroute from Haiphong to Saigon, Indochina, 7 September 1954. Note aviators' oxygen bottle at left.Credit: NAVY. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit. |
Menander | Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. |
| He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny, is either a man of very ill morals, or he has no more sense and understanding than a child. | |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | Age, like distance lends a double charm. |
Sir Walter Scott | Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. |
William Hazlitt | One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Educational information is available nationwidein the New Jersey area, the Association lends equipment such as wheelchairs to patients and holds meetings of patient support groups. (references) | |
Business | There is a Uzbekleasing company that was established in conjunction with Maybank and NBU, which lends financial leasing for agricultural and office equipment and transportation means. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Korea | Nonetheless, the collective weight of anecdotal evidence of harsh treatment of unauthorized religious activity lends credence to such reports. (references) |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | The country occupies leadership positions in many multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank and IMF, and also donates or lends substantial humanitarian, emergency and development amounts through the Saudi Red Crescent, the Saudi Fund for Development, and other bilateral funds. (references) |
Human Rights | Panama | Judicial appointments are supposed to be made under a merit-based system, but the top-down appointment system lends itself to political tinkering and undue interference by higher-level judges in lower-level cases in which they often have no jurisdiction. (references) |
Trade | Romania | The NBR's discount rate (the rate at which it lends to commercial banks) dropped to 35 percent. (references) |
South Africa | The AfDB lends to creditworthy African member countries and the poorer African member countries. (references) | |
Dominican Rep | The International Development Agency (IDA), the soft loan window of the World Bank, lends to the poorest of the developing countries. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LENDS" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 98.42% of the time. "LENDS" is used about 253 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 98.42% | 249 | 18,850 |
| Noun (plural) | 1.58% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 253 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "LENDS": re-lends. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
itself lends nature operational outsourcing recruitment situation very well | 3 |
almost any degree finding flexibility itself lends many organization position some that | 3 |
being chip conveyor flooded lends plow themselves | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LENDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 贷给 (lend, lending, Lent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | toermaelk egner sig godt til spektrometrisk analyse og foraskes let (powdered milk lends itself well to spectrometric analysis and is easily ashed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | poedermelk leent zich uitstekend voor spectrometrische analyse en kan eenvoudiger worden verast (powdered milk lends itself well to spectrometric analysis and is easily ashed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | soveltuu johonkin (lends itself to), on omiaan johonkin (is of a nature to, lends itself to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | prêtte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | leiht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | το γάλα σε σκόνη είναι κατάλληλο για φασματομετρικές αναλύσεις και αποτεφρώνεται εύκολα (powdered milk lends itself well to spectrometric analysis and is easily ashed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | presta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 빌 준다. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | endslay o leite em pó presta-se a análises de espectrometria e é facilmente incinerável (powdered milk lends itself well to spectrometric analysis and is easily ashed). (various references) la leche en polvo se presta bien a los análisis espectrométricos y es fácil de mineralizar (powdered milk lends itself well to spectrometric analysis and is easily ashed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "LENDS": blends, calends, interlends, kalends, overlends, reblends, relends. (additional references) | |
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"LENDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glends, lans, leds, lena, Lendas, lende, lendes, lendt, lendy, lenos, leuds, lewds, Lindh, linds, Lindzi, lundi, Lunds, slendes, Xlendi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LENDS" (pronounced le"ndz) |
| 5 | l e" n d z | blends. |
| 4 | -e" n d z | amends, ascends, attends, befriends, bends, commends, contends, defends, depends, descends, ends, extends, fends, friends, intends, offends, portends, pretends, recommends, sends, spends, suspends, tends, transcends, trends, wends. |
| 3 | -n d z | abounds, almonds, ands, armbands, astounds, backgrounds, Badlands, bands, battlegrounds, behinds, binds, blinds, blondes, blonds, bloodhounds, bonds, bookends, bounds, boyfriends, brands, bunds, campgrounds, commands, compounds, confounds, corresponds, demands, diamonds, dividends, Docklands, errands, expands, expounds, fairgrounds, farmhands, farmlands, fiends, finds, Firebrands, flatlands, forehands, fronds, funds, girlfriends, glands, grands, grasslands, grinds, grounds, hands, handstands, headbands, Highlands, hinds, hinterlands, Hollands, homelands, hounds, husbands, islands, kinds, lands, legends, ligands, lowlands, marshlands, masterminds, Meadowlands, Midlands, milliseconds, minds, misunderstands, moorlands, mounds, nanoseconds, newsstands, overspends, playgrounds, ponds, pounds, quicksands, rands, rebounds, refunds, reminds, reprimands, responds, rinds, rounds, sands, seconds, sounds, spacebands, stagehands, stands, stipends, strands, surrounds, thousands, Timberlands, turnarounds, understands, uplands, vagabonds, wands, weekends, wetlands, winds, withstands, woodlands, woodwinds, wounds. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: dels, dens, elds, ends, lend, lens, send, sled, sned. | |
-2 letters: del, den, eds, eld, els, end, ens, led, sel, sen. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, el, en, es, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: blends, dynels, elands, ladens, lensed, lodens, naleds, sendal. | |
+2 letters: adenyls, bindles, blendes, blondes, bundles, calends, candles, dandles, dangles, darnels, denials, densely, dentals, dentils, dindles, dingles, dolmens, dongles, donzels, dulness, endless, enfolds, engilds, enisled, ensiled, flensed, fondles, glandes, guldens, handles, handsel, hondles, indoles, kalends, kindles, lagends, landers, legends, lenders, lindens, lindies, linseed, loudens, mildens, needles, nestled, noddles, nodules, noodles, oldness, relends, rondels, rundles, sendals, singled, slander, slanged, slanted, slender, slidden, slinked, snailed, snarled, snelled, snidely, snooled, spindle, splined, swindle, unlades, unleads, wedelns, windles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 4E 44 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . -. -.. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000101 01001110 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E N D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 004E 0044 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4639483853 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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