Leases vs Leased - What's the difference?
leases | leased |
(lease)
(chiefly dialectal) to gather.
(chiefly dialectal) to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
(chiefly dialectal) to glean.
(chiefly dialectal) to glean, gather up leavings.
false; lying; deceptive
To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
an open pasture or common
*1928 , Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much :
*:Since as a child I used to lie
*:Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
*:Never, I own, expected I
*:That life would all be fair.
To release; let go; unloose.
To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
To take or hold by lease.
To grant a lease; to let or rent.
A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
The period of such a contract
A leasehold
The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
(lease)
Transferred under the terms of a lease.
* 1880 , , page 327 [http://google.com/books?id=lTU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA327&dq=leased]:
As verbs the difference between leases and leased
is that leases is (lease) while leased is (lease).As an adjective leased is
transferred under the terms of a lease.leases
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*lease
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .Verb
(leas)- (Dryden)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) leas, lees, les, from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Verb
(leas)Etymology 4
From (etyl) lese, from (etyl) . See also (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 5
From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Verb
(leas)Etymology 6
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(leas)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 7
From (leash)Noun
Anagrams
* English contranyms ----leased
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)- The resemblance borne by such a land carriage to a ship put under charter-party is, perhaps, closer where the entire business of one railway company, with its tracks, rolling-stock, equipments, and goodwill become leased for a certain term to another company.
