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Rent   /rɛnt/   Listen
Rent

noun
1.
A payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service.
2.
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.  Synonyms: rip, snag, split, tear.  "She had snags in her stockings"
3.
The return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions.  Synonym: economic rent.
4.
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.  Synonyms: rip, split.
verb
(past & past part. rented; pres. part. renting)
1.
Let for money.  Synonym: lease.
2.
Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract.  Synonyms: lease, let.
3.
Engage for service under a term of contract.  Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, take.  "Let's rent a car" , "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
4.
Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services.  Synonyms: charter, hire, lease.


Rend

verb
(past & past part. rent; pres. part. rending)
1.
Tear or be torn violently.  Synonyms: pull, rip, rive.  "Pull the cooked chicken into strips"



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"Rent" Quotes from Famous Books



... agreed. "I replaced more than double the quantity with what you paid me, so that at the next luau I catered one hundred and twenty plates without having to rent or borrow a dish or glass. Lord Mainweather gave ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London
... Friday.—House of Lords rent to its centre by deadly, blood-curdling, butter-melting controversy. Question is, shall it be Butterine or Margarine? The usually hostile camps streaked with enemies. A Noble Lord, who stands stoutly for Butterine, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887 • Various
... contained a table, a carpenter's bench, and a couple of chairs, and there were still smears of dust upon the uncovered floor. The birch-log walls had been rudely panelled with match-boarding half-way up, which was a somewhat unusual luxury, but the half-seasoned boards had rent with the heat, and exuded streaks of resin to which the grime and dust had clung. A pail, which apparently contained potato peelings, stood amidst a litter of old long boots and broken harness against one wall, and the floor was black and thick with grease all round the rusty stove. ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... it was very impressive. So furious was the gale that it tore up sand and gravel and hurled it against the faces of the hardy men who dared to brave the storm. At times there were blasts so terrible that a wild shriek, as if of a storm-fiend, rent the air, and flakes of foam were whirled madly about. But the most awful sight of all was the seething of the sea as it advanced in a succession of great breaking "rollers" into the bay, and churned itself ...
— Saved by the Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne
... and rudely-constructed hovel. The door was open, and the inside of the premises appeared as uncomfortable and rude as its situation and exterior foreboded. There was no appearance of a floor of any kind; the roof seemed rent in several places; the walls were composed of loose stones and turf, and the thatch of branches of trees. The fire was in the centre, and filled the whole wigwam with smoke, which escaped as much through the door as by means of a circular aperture ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott


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