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In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between parent and rent

is that parent is (obsolete) a relative while rent is (obsolete) income; revenue.

As nouns the difference between parent and rent

is that parent is one of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father while rent is a payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property or rent can be a tear or rip in some surface.

As verbs the difference between parent and rent

is that parent is to act as parent, to raise or rear while rent is to occupy premises in exchange for rent or rent can be (rend).

parent

English

(wikipedia parent)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
    • My twin sister says she loves our parents , but honestly, I dislike them .
  • * c. 1595 , (William Shakespeare), The Tempest , First Folio 1623, I.2:
    • my trust / Like a good parent , did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound.
  • *
    • And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind [...].
  • * 2005 , Siobhan O'Neill, The Guardian , 24 Aug 2005:
    • The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs.
  • A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
  • (obsolete) A relative.
  • The source or origin of something.
  • * 1785 , (Thomas Jefferson), Notes on the State of Virginia :
    • Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.
  • (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
  • (label) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, section=chapter 5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
  • # A parent company.
  • #* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
  • (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.

    • Synonyms

    * (person from whom one is descended) progenitor * mother

    Antonyms

    * (person from whom one is descended) child, offspring * child

    Hyponyms

    * (person from whom one is descended) father, mother

    Derived terms

    * parentage * parental * parentdom * parenthood * parentish * parentless * parentlike * parently * parentness * parentship * parent company

    Verb

  • To act as parent, to raise or rear.

    • Derived terms

    * parenting

    References

    See also

    * foster

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    rent

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) rente, from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
  • * , chapter=17
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
  • A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
  • (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
  • An object for which rent is charged or paid.
  • (obsolete) income; revenue
  • * Gower
    • [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
    Derived terms
    * rental * renting * rent strike

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
  • To grant occupation in return for rent.
  • To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
  • To be leased or let for rent.
    • The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Variant form of renden.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tear or rip in some surface.
  • * 1913 ,
    • The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents .
  • A division or schism.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (rend)

    • Anagrams

    * * English contranyms English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms English terms with multiple etymologies 1000 English basic words ----