What is the difference between rent and let?

In obsolete terms the difference between rent and let

is that rent is income; revenue while let is to prevent or obstruct {{term|to}} do something, or {{term|that}} something happen.

In transitive terms the difference between rent and let

is that rent is to obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money while let is Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.

rent
English

Etymology 1
(etyl) rente, from .
Noun
(en noun)
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.

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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)

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let
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) leten, .
Verb

(label) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without (to)).

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*(Bible), (w) viii. 28

*:Pharaoh said, I will let you go.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is

*1971 , , (The Tombs of Atuan)

*:He could not be let die of thirst there alone in the dark.

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To leave.

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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets, / But to her mother Nature all her care she lets .

(label) To allow the release of (a fluid).

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(label) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.

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(label) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out .

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To cause (+ bare infinitive).

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Soo within a whyle kynge Pellinore cam with a grete hoost / and salewed the peple and the kyng / and ther was grete ioye made on euery syde / Thenne the kyng lete serche how moche people of his party ther was slayne / And ther were founde but lytel past two honderd men slayne and viij kny?tes of the table round in their pauelions

*1818 , (John Keats), "To—":

*:Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb, / Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand.

Synonyms
* (to allow) allow, permit
Usage notes
The use of "let" to introduce an imperative may sometimes be confused with its use, as its own imperative , in the sense of "to allow". For example, the sentence "Let me go to the store." could either be a second-person imperative of "let" (addressing someone who might prevent the speaker from going to the store) or a first-person singular imperative of "go" (not implying any such preventer).
Etymology 2
(etyl) . More at late, delay.
Verb

(archaic) To hinder, prevent; to obstruct (someone or something).

* Bible, 2. Thessalonians ii. 7

He who now letteth' will ' let , until he be taken out of the way.

* Tennyson

Mine ancient wound is hardly whole, / And lets me from the saddle.

(obsolete) To prevent or obstruct (to) do something, or (that) something happen.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts VIII:

And as they went on their waye, they cam unto a certayne water, and the gelded man sayde: Se here is water, what shall lett me to be baptised?

Noun
(en noun)
An obstacle or hindrance.

*, II.16:

*:Paulus Emilius'' going to the glorious expedition of ''Macedon'', advertised the people of ''Rome'' during his absence not to speake of his actions: ''For the licence of judgements is an especiall let in great affaires.

*Latimer

*:Consider whether your doings be to the let of your salvation or not.

(tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

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