[rent] 
| 1. | a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property. |
| 2. | a payment or series of payments made by a lessee to an owner in return for the use of machinery, equipment, etc. |
| 3. | Economics. the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated land over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or real estate. |
| 4. | profit or return derived from any differential advantage in production. |
| 5. | Obsolete. revenue or income. |
| 6. | to grant the possession and enjoyment of (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent from the tenant or lessee. (often fol. by out). |
| 7. | to take and hold (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent to the landlord or owner. |
| 8. | to be leased or let for rent: This apartment rents cheaply. |
| 9. | to lease or let property. |
| 10. | to take possession of and use property by paying rent: She rents from a friend. |
| 11. | for rent, available to be rented, as a home or store: an apartment for rent. |
[rent] | 1. | an opening made by rending or tearing; slit; fissure. |
| 2. | a breach of relations or union between individuals or groups; schism. |
| 3. | pt. and pp. of rend. |
[rend] verb, rent, rend⋅ing.| 1. | to separate into parts with force or violence: The storm rent the ship to pieces. |
| 2. | to tear apart, split, or divide: a racial problem that is rending the nation. |
| 3. | to pull or tear violently (often fol. by away, off, up, etc.). |
| 4. | to tear (one's garments or hair) in grief, rage, etc. |
| 5. | to disturb (the air) sharply with loud noise. |
| 6. | to harrow or distress (the heart) with painful feelings. |
| 7. | to split or tear something. |
| 8. | to become torn or split. |
| rend (rěnd) v. rent (rěnt) or rend·ed, rend·ing, rends v. tr.
To become torn or split; come apart. [Middle English renden, from Old English rendan.] |
| rent 1 (rěnt) n.
v. tr.
To be for rent: The cottage rents for $1,200 a month. [Middle English rente, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *rendita, from feminine past participle of *rendere, to yield, return; see render.] rent'a·bil'i·ty n., rent'a·ble adj. |
| rent 2 (rěnt) v. A past tense and a past participle of rend. n.
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| rent 3 (rěnt) n. Slang A parent. Often used in the plural: had to stay home with the rents. [Short for parent.] Our Living Language : When young people talk about their rents, that is, their parents, they are using a slang term that is of interest to language historians, if not necessarily thrilling for parents themselves. The term is a prime example of one of the fundamental characteristics of slang, which continually creates novel ways of expressing what are often rather ordinary things (if parents may be considered ordinary things). Slang has recently produced two expressions for "parents" that have gained wide currency—rents and parental units. Both expressions demonstrate slang's use of unusual or creative linguistic means to achieve novelty of expression. While there are many slang terms, such as bod for body or rad for radical, that result from the clipping of unstressed syllables, rents is a clipping that drops a stressed syllable, much like the similar term za, "pizza." The desire to coin new ways of referring to things also leads speakers of slang to use circumlocutions like knuckle sandwich for "punch." Parental units falls into this category. It plays on the jargon of bureaucrats and social science, in which the world is viewed as so much data waiting to be quantified. The appearance of terms such as rents and parental units also shows that all available styles and levels of language can be grist for slang's mill—so long as the material is perceived as irreverent, funny, or just plain cool. |
Rent
(Isa. 3:24), probably a rope, as rendered in the LXX. and Vulgate and Revised Version, or as some prefer interpreting the phrase, "girdle and robe are torn [i.e., are 'a rent'] by the hand of violence."
