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Wo vs Rent - What's the difference?

wo | rent |

As nouns the difference between wo and rent

is that wo is while 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 interjection wo

is a falconer's call to a hawk.

As a verb rent is

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

wo

English

(wikipedia wo)

Alternative forms

* whoa

Etymology 1

Variant of who .

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • A falconer's call to a hawk.
  • A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of woe .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1815 , Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects , page 82[http://books.google.com/books?id=BAkUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA82]:
    • Such feeble arms, to work internal wo !
  • * (Hannah More)
    • But if there was a competition between a sick family and a new broach, the broach was sure to carry the day. This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and wo .

    Anagrams

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    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)

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