资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Loan \Loan\, n. t. [imp. & p. p. {Loaned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Loaning}.]
   To lend; -- sometimes with out. --Kent.

         By way of location or loaning them out.  --J. Langley
                                                  (1644).

Loanin \Loan"in\, Loaning \Loan"ing\, n. [From Scotch loan, E.
   lawn.]
   An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle
   are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a
   lane. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.

资料来源 : WordNet®

loaning
     n : disposing of money or property with the expectation that the
         same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned [syn: {lending}]