lend
1. bestow a quality on (Freq. 7)
- Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company
- The music added a lot to the play
- She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings
- This adds a light note to the program
• Syn:
impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
• Derivationally related forms:
addition (for: add)
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
factor, instill, transfuse, tinsel, throw in
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
2. give temporarily;
let have for a limited time (Freq. 7)
- I will lend you my car
- loan me some money
• Syn:
loan
• Ant:
borrow
• Derivationally related forms:
loan (for: loan), lendable, lender
• Hypernyms:
give
• Hyponyms:
hire out, rent out, farm out, trust, advance
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
- They lend cars to the tourists
- They lend the tourists their cars
3. have certain characteristics of qualities for something;
be open or vulnerable to (Freq. 2)
- This story would lend itself well to serialization on television
- The current system lends itself to great abuse
• Hypernyms:
be
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
- Somebody ----s something PP
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