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Rend vs Hire - What's the difference?

rend | hire |

In transitive terms the difference between rend and hire

is that rend is to part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force while hire is to accomplish by paying for services.

In intransitive terms the difference between rend and hire

is that rend is to be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split while hire is to accept employment.

As a noun hire is

payment for the temporary use of something.

rend

English

Verb

  • To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
  • Powder rends a rock in blasting.
    Lightning rends an oak.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
  • If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
  • * 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 317:
  • We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.
  • To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
  • To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
  • Relationships may rend if tempers flare.
    Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----

    hire

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Payment for the temporary use of something.
  • The sign offered pedalos on hire .
  • (obsolete) Reward, payment.
  • * Bible, Luke x. 7
  • The labourer is worthy of his hire .
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
  • I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire , / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
  • The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
  • ''When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire .
  • A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
  • We pair up each of our new hires''' with one of our original '''hires .

    Synonyms

    * (state of being hired) employment, employ

    Verb

    (hir)
  • (label) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
  • * , chapter=16
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
  • (label) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
  • (label) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
  • (label) To accomplish by paying for services.
  • (label) To accept employment.
  • Antonyms

    * (to employ) fire

    Derived terms

    * hired gun * hired hand

    Anagrams

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