Rent vs Hent - What's the difference?
rent | hent |
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
* , chapter=17
, title= 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
* (Alexander Pope)
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.
A tear or rip in some surface.
* 1913 ,
A division or schism.
(rend)
(label) To take hold of, to grasp.
*, Bk.V, Ch.IX:
*:And in the grekynge of the day Sir Gawayne hente his hors wondyrs for to seke.
To take away, carry off.
In obsolete terms the difference between rent and hent
is that rent is income; revenue while hent is to take hold of, to grasp.As verbs the difference between rent and hent
is that rent is to occupy premises in exchange for rent while hent is to take hold of, to grasp.As a noun rent
is a payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.rent
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) rente, from .Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
- So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
Derived terms
* rental * renting * rent strikeVerb
(en verb)- The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
Etymology 2
(etyl) . Variant form of renden.Noun
(en noun)- The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents .
