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assign
English
Etymology
From Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, asigner, from Latin assign?, from ad- + sign? (“mark, sign”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??sa?n/
- Hyphenation: as?sign
- Rhymes: -a?n
Verb
assign (third-person singular simple present assigns, present participle assigning, simple past and past participle assigned)
- (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
- (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
- (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
- (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
- (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
Synonyms
- (set apart something for some purpose): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- (transfer property): consign, convey; see also Thesaurus:transfer
Derived terms
- assignment
- assignable
- assignation
Translations
Noun
assign (plural assigns)
- An assignee.
- (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
- (obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
- (obsolete) A design or purpose.
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lend
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: l?nd, IPA(key): /l?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Etymology 1
From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound, round, etc.), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English l?nan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijan? (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihn? (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyk?- (“to leave, leave over”).
Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linqu? (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek ????? (leíp?, “leave, release”). See also loan.
Verb
lend (third-person singular simple present lends, present participle lending, simple past and past participle lent)
- (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
- (intransitive) To make a loan.
- (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
- To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
- Cato, lend me for a while thy patience.
- 1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney
- Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions.
- (proscribed) To borrow.
Antonyms
- borrow
Derived terms
- have a lend
- lender
- lend to believe
Translations
See also
- give back
- loan
- pay back
Etymology 2
From Middle English lende (usually in plural as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from Old English lendenu, lendinu pl (“loins”), from Proto-Germanic *landij?, *land?? (“loin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“loin, kidney”). Cognate with Scots lend, leynd (“the loins, flank, buttocks”), Dutch lendenen (“loins, reins”), German Lenden (“loins”), Swedish länder (“loins”), Icelandic lendar (“loins”), Latin lumbus (“loin”), Russian ??????? (ljádveja, “thigh, haunch”).
Alternative forms
- leynd, leind, lind (Scotland)
- lende (obsolete)
Noun
lend (plural lends or linder)
- (anatomy, Britain dialectal) The lumbar region; loin.
- (Britain dialectal, of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.
References
- lend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- lend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *lenta, from Proto-Indo-European *lent (“linse”). Compare Latin lens, lentis, Old High German linsi.
Noun
lend f
- acorn
Related terms
- lëndë
Estonian
Noun
lend (genitive lennu, partitive lendu)
- flight
Declension
Derived terms
- lennujaam (“airport”)
- lennuõnnetus (“aviation accident”)
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