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单词 rent
释义

rent

See also: Rent

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rĕnt, IPA(key): /ɹɛnt/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology 1

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente and Medieval Latin renta, both from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of reddō.

Noun

rent (countable and uncountable, plural rents)

  1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
    I am asking £100 a week rent.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
      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.
  2. A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
  3. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
    A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.
  4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
  5. (obsolete) Income; revenue.
    • 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
Derived terms
  • rental
  • renting
  • rent-seeking
  • rent strike
Descendants
  • → Finnish: ränttü
Translations

Verb

rent (third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented)

  1. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
    I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
  2. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
    We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.
  3. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
  4. (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
    The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
Translations
See also
  • hire

Etymology 2

From Middle English renten (“to tear”). Variant form of renden.

Noun

rent (plural rents)

  1. A tear or rip in some surface.
    • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], OCLC 855945:
      The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.
    • 2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81:
      The oscillations were getting so severe that painters on the bridge learned to tie down their tins before a train passed. They found holes and rents in the iron but never reported them as they were never asked, and it wasn't their job. These were deferential times, and few wanted to talk out of turn.
  2. A division or schism.
    • 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:
      […] the White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.
Translations

Verb

rent

  1. simple past tense and past participle of rend

Adjective

rent (comparative more rent, superlative most rent)

  1. That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
      Indeed, we could clearly make out the arch and stony banks of this second cave, and, from their rent and jagged appearance, discovered that, like the first long passage down which we had passed through the cliff before we reached the quivering spur, it had, to all appearance, been torn in the bowels of the rock by the terrific force of some explosive gas.

Anagrams

  • tern, tren

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /reːˀnt/, [ˈʁæˀnd̥]

Adjective

rent

  1. neuter singular of ren

Adverb

rent

  1. purely (morally)
  2. purely (excluding other possibility)
  3. quite, completely

Derived terms

  • gøre rent (“to clean”)
  • rent ud (“point-blank”)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt
  • IPA(key): /rɛnt/

Verb

rent

  1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of rennen
  2. (archaic) plural imperative of rennen

Middle English

Noun

rent

  1. rent: income; revenue
    • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, OCLC 827099568:
      [Bacchus] a wastor was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

rent

  1. neuter singular of ren

Adverb

rent

  1. purely

Verb

rent

  1. past participle of renne

References

  • “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

rent

  1. past participle of renna

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛnt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt
  • Syllabification: rent

Noun

rent f

  1. genitive plural of renta

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /reːnt/

Adjective

rent

  1. absolute indefinite neuter singular of ren.

Adverb

rent (comparative renare, superlative renast)

  1. cleanly
  2. purely

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English rounde, from Old French reont, from Latin rotundus. Compare arent.

Noun

rent

  1. round
    • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 12:
      "Swingale," co the umost, "thou liest well a rent,
      "Swindle," said the other, "you know quite well,

References

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129
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