Rend vs Rent - What's the difference?
rend | rent |
To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 317:
To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
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)
In transitive terms the difference between rend and rent
is that rend is to part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force while rent is to obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.In intransitive terms the difference between rend and rent
is that rend is to be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split while rent is to be leased or let for rent.As a noun rent is
a payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.rend
English
Verb
- Powder rends a rock in blasting.
- Lightning rends an oak.
- 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.
- We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.
- Relationships may rend if tempers flare.
- Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.
Anagrams
* English irregular verbs ----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 .