Rent vs Slot - What's the difference?
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A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
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(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
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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.
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A division or schism.
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A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
(electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
(slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
(obsolete) To bolt or lock a door or window.
(obsolete, transitive, UK, dialect) To shut with violence; to slam.
A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
A gap in a schedule or sequence.
(aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
(aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
(computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
(informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.
(slang) The vagina.
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To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
To put something where it belongs.
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The track of an animal, especially a deer.
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Rent is a related term of slot.
As verbs the difference between rent and slot
is that rent is to occupy premises in exchange for rent or rent can be (rend) while slot is (sluta).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.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 .
Verb
(head)slot
English
(wikipedia slot)Etymology 1
From (etyl) slot or (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
- to slot a door
Etymology 2
From Old French esclot , of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)- The game offers four save slots .
- She'd like him jammed into her slot , like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did.
- Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel.
Derived terms
* slotwiseVerb
citation, page= , passage=And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. }}
