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rent (root: rend)

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun rent has 4 senses

Verb rent has 4 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

rentv. i. 
     To rant.  Hudibras.  [1913 Webster]
rentimp. & p. p. 
     imp. & p. p. of Rend.  [1913 Webster]
rentn. [From Rend.].
  •  An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.  [1913 Webster]
    "See what a rent the envious Casca made."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear; dilaceration; break; fracture.
rentv. t. 
     To tear. See Rend.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
rentn. [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing. or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay. See Render.].
  •  Income; revenue. See Catel.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
    "[Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent
    In wine and bordel he dispent.
    "  [1913 Webster]
    "So bought an annual rent or two,
    And liv'd, just as you see I do.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  Pay; reward; share; toll.  [1913 Webster]
    "Death, that taketh of high and low his rent."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.  [1913 Webster]
    " The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a sewing machine, etc."  [1913 Webster]
  •  That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the “original and indestructible powers of the soil;” the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the “margin of cultivation.” Called also economic rent, or Ricardian rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Black rent. See Blackmail, 3. -- Forehand rent, rent which is paid in advance; foregift. -- Rent arrear, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. Blackstone. -- Rent charge (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it. Bouvier. -- Rent roll, a list or account of rents or income; a rental. -- Rent seck (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was made incident to rent seck by Statute 4 George II. c. 28. -- Rent service (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such service being incident to it. -- White rent, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to black rent.
rentv. t. [F. renter. See Rent, n.].
  •  To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.  [1913 Webster]
rentv. i. 
     To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rent, n. & v.
--n.
1 a tenant's periodical payment to an owner or landlord for the use of land or premises.
2 payment for the use of a service, equipment, etc.
--v.
1 tr. (often foll. by from) take, occupy, or use at a rent (rented a cottage from the local farmer).
2 tr. (often foll. by out) let or hire (a thing) for rent.
3 intr. (foll. by at) be let or hired out at a specified rate (the land rents at {pound}100 per month).

Idiom
for rent US available to be rented. rent-a- (in comb.) often joc. denoting availability for hire (rent-a-van; rent-a-crowd). rent-boy a young male prostitute. rent-free with exemption from rent. rent-roll the register of a landlord's lands etc. with the rents due from them; the sum of one's income from rent.
rent, n.
1 a large tear in a garment etc.
2 an opening in clouds etc.
3 a cleft, fissure, or gorge.

rent, past and past part. of REND.

THESAURUS

rent

abrasion, abysm, abyss, aggravated, arroyo, bareboat charter, blemish, box canyon, breach, break, breakage, broach, broken, burn, burned, burst, busted, canyon, cavity, chafe, chap, charter, chasm, check, checked, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, chipped, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, cloven, col, concussion, coulee, couloir, crack, cracked, crackle, cranny, craze, crazed, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut apart, cut open, cwm, damaged, defile, dehiscent, dell, deteriorated, dike, dispart, ditch, divaricate, divide, donga, draw, embittered, exacerbated, excavation, farm, farm out, fault, fee, fissure, fissured, fissury, flash burn, flaw, flume, fly open, fracture, fray, frazzle, furrow, gall, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, harmed, hire, hire out, hiring, hole, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, in shreds, incise, incision, injured, injury, irritated, job, joint, kloof, lacerate, lacerated, laceration, lay open, leak, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, lesion, let, let off, let out, mangled, moat, mortal wound, mutilated, mutilation, notch, nullah, ope, open, open up, opening, part, pass, passage, puncture, quartered, quitrent, rack rent, ragged, ravine, rent charge, rent out, rent-roll, rental, rift, rime, rimose, rimulose, rip, rive, riven, run, rupture, ruptured, scald, scalded, scale, schism, scissure, scorch, scorched, scrape, scratch, scuff, seam, second-degree burn, separate, severed, shattered, shredded, slash, slashed, slice, slit, slot, smashed, sore, splinter, splintered, split, spread, spread out, spring open, sprung, stab, stab wound, sublease, sublet, subrent, swing open, tap, tattered, tear, tear open, the worse for, third-degree burn, throw open, torn, trauma, trench, underlet, valley, void, wadi, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench

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Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.

Borrowing

VB borrow, desume, hire, rent, farm, take a lease, take a demise, take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year, hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year, adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take, raise money, take up money, raise the wind, fly a kite, borrow from Peter to pay Paul, run into debt, replevy.

Purchase

VB buy, purchase, invest in, procure, rent, repurchase, buy in, keep in one's pay, bribe, suborn, pay, spend, make a purchase, complete a purchase, buy over the counter, shop, market, go shopping.

Receipt

N receipt, value received, money coming in, income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds, gross receipts, net profit, earnings, accepta, avails, rent, rent roll, rental, rentage, rack-rent, premium, bonus, sweepstakes, tontine, pension, annuity, jointure, alimony, palimony, pittance, emolument, receiving, received, profitable.

Interval

N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.

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