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Rent vs Gent - What's the difference?

rent | gent |

As a noun 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 a verb rent

is to occupy premises in exchange for rent or rent can be (rend).

As a proper noun gent is

or gent can be ghent.

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

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    gent

    English

    Etymology 1

    From gentleman .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gentleman.
    • Related terms
    * genteel * gentile * gentle

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gent, ultimately from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
  • * Chaucer
    • A knight [who] was fair and gent .
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
    • He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent , / That him againe lou'd in the least degree [...].
  • (obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant
  • * Spenser
    • Her body gent and small.
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