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loan1    Audio Help   [lohn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something: the loan of a book.
2.something lent or furnished on condition of being returned, esp. a sum of money lent at interest: a $1000 loan at 10 percent interest.
3.loanword.
–verb (used with object)
4.to make a loan of; lend: Will you loan me your umbrella?
5.to lend (money) at interest.
–verb (used without object)
6.to make a loan or loans; lend.
7.on loan,
a.borrowed for temporary use: How many books can I have on loan from the library at one time?
b.temporarily provided or released by one's regular employer, superior, or owner for use by another: Our best actor is on loan to another movie studio for two films.

[Origin: 1150–1200; ME lon(e), lan(e) (n.), OE lān < ON lān; r. its cognate, OE lǣn loan, grant, c. D leen loan, G Leh(e)n fief; cf. lend]

Sometimes mistakenly identified as an Americanism, loan1 as a verb meaning “to lend” has been used in English for nearly 800 years: Nearby villages loaned clothing and other supplies to the flood-ravaged town. The occasional objections to loan as a verb referring to things other than money, are comparatively recent. Loan is standard in all contexts but is perhaps most common in financial ones: The government has loaned money to farmers to purchase seed.
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loan2    Audio Help   [lohn] Pronunciation Key
–noun Scot.
1.a country lane; secondary road.
2.an uncultivated plot of farmland, usually used for milking cows.
Also, loan·ing    Audio Help   [loh-ning] Pronunciation Key.


[Origin: 1325–75; ME, OE lone lane]
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loan    Audio Help   (lōn)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. Something lent for temporary use.
    2. A sum of money lent at interest.
  1. An act of lending; a grant for temporary use: asked for the loan of a garden hose.
  2. A temporary transfer to a duty or place away from a regular job: an efficiency expert on loan from the main office.

tr.v.   loaned, loan·ing, loans Usage Problem
To lend.


[Middle English lan, lon, from Old Norse lān; see leikw- in Indo-European roots.]

loan'er n.
Usage Note: The verb loan is well established in American usage and cannot be considered incorrect. The frequent objections to the form by American grammarians may have originated from a provincial deference to British critics, who long ago labeled the usage a typical Americanism. Loan is, however, used to describe only physical transactions, as of money or goods; for figurative transactions, lend is correct: Distance lends enchantment. The allusions lend the work a classical tone.

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loan 
c.1240, from O.N. lan, related to lja "to lend," from P.Gmc. *laikhwniz (cf. O.H.G. lihan "to borrow," Ger. leihen, Goth. leihan "to lend"), originally "to let have, to leave (to someone)," from PIE *leikw- (see relinquish). The O.N. word also is cognate with O.E. læn "gift," which did not survive into M.E., but its derived verb lænan is the source of lend (q.v.). As a verb, loan is attested from 1625 and was formerly current, but has now been supplanted in England by lend, though it survives in Amer.Eng. Loan word (1874) is a translation of Ger. Lehnwort; loan-translation is attested 1933, from Ger. Lehnübersetzung. Slang loan shark first attested 1905.

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loan

noun
1. the temporary provision of money (usually at interest) 
2. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English [syn: loanword

verb
1. give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money" [syn: lend] [ant: borrow

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loan1 [ləun] noun
anything lent, especially money
Example: I shall ask the bank for a loan.
Arabic: قِرْض
Chinese (Simplified): 贷款
Chinese (Traditional): 貸款
Czech: půjčka
Danish: lån
Dutch: lening
Estonian: laen
Finnish: laina
French: prêt
German: die Anleihe, das Darlehen
Greek: δάνειο
Hungarian: kölcsön
Icelandic: lán
Indonesian: pinjaman
Italian: prestito
Japanese: 貸付金
Korean: 대여물, 대부
Latvian: aizdevums; aizņēmums
Lithuanian: paskola
Norwegian: lån
Polish: pożyczka
Portuguese (Brazil): empréstimo
Portuguese (Portugal): empréstimo
Romanian: îm­pru­­mut
Russian: заём; ссуда
Slovak: pôžička
Slovenian: posojilo
Spanish: préstamo
Swedish: lån
Turkish: borç para, kredi
loan2 [ləun] noun
the act of lending
Example: I gave him the loan of my bicycle.
Arabic: إقْراض
Chinese (Simplified): 借出
Chinese (Traditional): 借出
Czech: půjčení
Danish: lån
Dutch: het lenen
Estonian: laen
Finnish: laina
French: prêt
German: das Leihen
Greek: δανεισμός
Hungarian: kölcsön(adás)
Icelandic: lán
Indonesian: pinjaman
Italian: prestito
Japanese: 貸付け
Korean: 대여
Latvian: aizņēmums; aizņemšanās; aizdevums; aizdošana
Lithuanian: paskolinimas
Norwegian: lån
Polish: pożyczenie
Portuguese (Brazil): empréstimo
Portuguese (Portugal): empréstimo
Romanian: împrumut
Russian: предоставление на время
Slovak: požičanie
Slovenian: posojanje
Spanish: empréstito
Swedish: utlåning, utlånande
Turkish: borç (verme), ödünç (verme)
loan [ləun] verb
(especially American) to lend
Example: Can you loan me a pen?
Arabic: يُقْرِض
Chinese (Simplified): 借出
Chinese (Traditional): 借出
Czech: půjčit
Danish: låne
Dutch: lenen
Estonian: laenama
Finnish: lainata
French: prêter
German: leihen
Hungarian: kölcsönad
Icelandic: lána
Indonesian: meminjamkan
Italian: prestare
Japanese: 貸す
Korean: 빌려주다
Latvian: aizņemties; aizdot
Lithuanian: paskolinti
Norwegian: låne
Polish: pożyczyć
Portuguese (Brazil): emprestar
Portuguese (Portugal): emprestar
Romanian: a îm­prumuta
Russian: давать взаймы
Slovak: požičať
Slovenian: posoditi
Spanish: prestar
Swedish: låna
Turkish: borç vermek, ödünç vermek
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Loan

De*lin"quent\a. [L. delinquens, -entis, p. pr. of delinquere to fail, be wanting in one's duty, do wrong; de- + linquere to leave. See Loan, n.] Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.
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Loan

E*clipse"\, n. [F. ['e]clipse, L. eclipsis, fr. Gr. ?, prop., a forsaking, failing, fr. ? to leave out, forsake; ? out + ? to leave. See Ex-, and Loan.]

1. (Astron.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.

Note: In ancient times, eclipses were, and among unenlightened people they still are, superstitiously regarded as forerunners of evil fortune, a sentiment of which occasional use is made in literature.

That fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark. --Milton.

2. The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.

All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. --Sir W. Raleigh.

As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. --Shelley.

Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under Annular.

Cycle of eclipses. See under Cycle.
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Loan

El*lip"sis\, n.; pl. Ellipses. [L., fr. Gr. ? a leaving, defect, fr. ? to leave in fall short; ? in + ? to leave. See In, and Loan, and cf. Ellipse.]

1. (Gram.) Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.

2. (Geom.) An ellipse. [Obs.]
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