rent : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rent	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rent n a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" Synonym(s): rip, rent, snag, split, tear the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions Synonym(s): economic rent, rent the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" Synonym(s): rent, rip, split v let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad" Synonym(s): rent, lease grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners" Synonym(s): lease, let, rent engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" Synonym(s): lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services Synonym(s): rent, hire, charter, lease
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rent \Rent\, n. (Polit. Econ.) (a) That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the [bd]original and indestructible powers of the soil;[b8] the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the [bd]margin of cultivation.[b8] Called also {economic, [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. (b) Loosely, a return or profit from a differential advantage for production, as in case of income or earnings due to rare natural gifts creating a natural monopoly.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rend \Rend\ (r[ecr]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rent} (r?nt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rending}.] [AS. rendan, hrendan; cf. OFries. renda, randa, Fries. renne to cut, rend, Icel. hrinda to push, thrust, AS. hrindan; or cf. Icel. r[?]na to rob, plunder, Ir. rannaim to divide, share, part, W. rhanu, Armor. ranna.] 1. To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak. The dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. --Shak. 2. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force. An empire from its old foundations rent. --Dryden. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. --1 Kings xi. 11. {To rap and rend}. See under {Rap}, v. t., to snatch. Syn: To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture; crack; split.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rent \Rent\ (r?nt), v. i. To rant. [R. & Obs.] --Hudibras.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rent \Rent\, n. [From {Rend}.] 1. An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear. See what a rent the envious Casca made. --Shak. 2. Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church. Syn: Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear; dilaceration; break; fracture.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rent \Rent\, imp. & p. p. of {Rend}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rent \Rent\, v. t. To tear. See {Rend}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rent \Rent\, n. [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing. or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay. See {Render}.] 1. Income; revenue. See {Catel}. [Obs.] [bd]Catel had they enough and rent.[b8] --Chaucer. [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent. --Gower. So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as you see I do. --Pope. 2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.] Death, that taketh of high and low his rent. --Chaucer. 3. (Law) 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. Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a sewing machine, etc. {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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rent \Rent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Renting}.] [F. renter. See {Rent}, n.] 1. To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rent \Rent\, v. i. To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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."