different between liberty vs loan

English

Etymology

From Middle English liberte, from Old French liberté, from Latin libertas (“freedom”), from liber (“free”); see liberal.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?b?ti/

Noun

liberty (countable and uncountable, plural liberties)

1. The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
2. The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.

3. The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
4. Freedom from excessive government control.
5. A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore.

6. (often plural) A breach of social convention.

7. A local division of government administration in medieval England.
8. (game of Go) an empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.

Synonyms

• freedom

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• liberty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• liberty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Liberty in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• liberty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Liberty (division) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Birtley, Tribley

Italian

Noun

liberty m (invariable)

1. art nouveau

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lo?n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Homophone: lone

Etymology 1

From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán, from Proto-Germanic *laihn?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyk?- (“to leave (over)”).

Cognate with Icelandic lán, Swedish lån, Danish lån, German Lehen (“fief”), Dutch leen (“fief”), West Frisian lien, North Frisian leen (“fief; loan; office”), Scots lane, lain, len, Old English l?n. More at lend.

Noun

loan (plural loans)

1. (law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.

   Synonyms: loaning, lending

2. (law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).

   Synonym: principal

3. The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.

4. The permission to borrow any item.

Hypernyms

• (something borrowed): bailment

Hyponyms

• (something borrowed): mutuum, commodatum

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

loan (third-person singular simple present loans, present participle loaning, simple past and past participle loaned)

1. (usually double transitive, US, dated in Britain, informal) To lend (something) to (someone).
   • 1820 June 1, William King, in 1820, Letters to James Monroe: President of the United States, from William King,

     In the course of a correspondence that passed between us at this period, he mentioned, to my utter astonishment, the fact of his having loaned Neilson 81000 to buy my bill on Maryland; and stated that he could not proceed to make the payment until Neilson refunded the money.

   • 1992, Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, page 30,

     All the rest—six out of eleven, more than half—were loaned to him.

   • 2015, Joanne M. Flood, Wiley GAAP 2015: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, page 574,

     Upon maturity of the debt, the investment bank returns the loaned shares.

     On the date of issuance, the entity should record the loaned shares at their fair value and recognize them as an issuance cost, with an offset to additional paid-in capital.

Usage notes

• This usage, once widespread in the UK, is now confined to the US (or perhaps parts thereof). The use of loan as a verb is occasionally disapproved of, especially when the object being lent is something other than money; as a consequence, lend is often preferred.

Translations

Further reading

• loan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

See lawn.

Noun

loan (plural loans)

1. (Scotland) A lonnen.

Anagrams

• Anlo, NOLA, Nola, lona, nola

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?n/, [?lo??n]
• Rhymes: -o?n
• Syllabification: lo?an

Noun

loan

1. genitive singular of loka

Anagrams

• laon, olan

Spanish

Verb

loan

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of loar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of loar.

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [lwa?n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [lwa????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [l???a????]

Noun

(classifier con) loan

1. hen-phoenix