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[ verb ] of a quality, as in
Synonyms Examples : "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" Used in print (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)Data on the former are scanty , but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others , thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does , indeed , attain the greatest length . |
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[ verb ] give temporarily; let have for a limited time
Synonyms Examples "I will lend you my car" "loan me some money" Used in print (Saturday Review, 44: 15...)Public libraries in Nassau_County have been lending books to each other by mail for a quarter-century , but the system enables this process to operate on an organized and far more comprehensive basis . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)`` Friends , Romans , Countrymen , Lend Me Your Ear-Muffs '' , `` Such a Phrase as Drifts Through Dream '' , and `` The New_Vocabularianism '' . (Booth Hemingway and Stuart H. Brown,...)You can hope against hope that come spring_cleaning , your fair-weather friends will lend a hand at scrubbing and furbishing . |
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[ verb ] have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open to
Examples : "This story would lend itself well to serialization on television" be vulnerable to: "The current system lends itself to great abuse" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)No reference is made to the possibility of recording other_than popular_music in this manner , and it would not seem to lend itself well to serious_music . Related terms |
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