Lend-Loan | Commonly Confused Words

Lend

/lend/

To provide someone with something temporarily with the expectation of it being returned

He lent forward, staring at Poirot."'What, lending that money?' 'Yes, sir.Lord Wickhammersley lends the Hall grounds for the purpose.

/ləun/

An amount of money that is borrowed from a bank or financial institution and expected to be paid back with interest.

Can you loan me $5?She loaned me money for train fare from Philadelphia."in Third Street on call loans, and even more.

This word has no antonyms

Lend is a verb, describing the action of giving something to someone temporarily.
Loan can be used as a noun to describe the thing that is lent, especially money or a book.
Think of lend as an action — what you do — while loan as a thing — what is given.
You lend a book to a friend; a bank gives you a loan.
While lend can also mean to confer or add something like lending a helping hand, loan doesn’t have this flexibility.