Lend vs. Lent — What's the Difference?

Grant to (someone) the use of (something) on the understanding that it will be returned

Lent (Latin: Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is a religious observance in the Christian liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later; depending on the Christian denomination and local custom, Lent concludes either on the evening of Maundy Thursday, or at sundown on Holy Saturday, when the Easter Vigil is celebrated. Regardless, Lenten practices are properly maintained until the evening of Holy Saturday.

Contribute or add (a quality) to

(in the Christian Church) the period preceding Easter, which is devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ's fasting in the wilderness. In the Western Church it runs from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, and so includes forty weekdays.

Accommodate or adapt oneself to

Past tense and past participle of lend.

To give or allow the use of temporarily on the condition that the same or its equivalent will be returned.

A 40-day period of fasting and penitence observed by many Christians in preparation for Easter. In Western churches, Lent lasts from Ash Wednesday until Easter, usually excepting Sundays.

To provide (money) temporarily on condition that the amount borrowed be returned, usually with an interest fee.

Simple past tense and past participle of lend

To make available for another's use

A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.

To contribute or impart

Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.

To make a loan. See Usage Note at loan.

See Lento.

(transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday

(intransitive) To make a loan.

(reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.

To afford; to grant or furnish in general.

(proscribed) To borrow.

Loan permission to borrow (something).

The lumbar region; loin.

The loins; flank; buttocks.

To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; - opposed to borrow.

To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the return of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food.

To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend one's name or influence.

To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig.

Bestow a quality on;

Give temporarily; let have for a limited time;

Have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to;