rent
[rent]
n. 租金, 房租, 租, 裂缝, 破裂, 裂

vt. 租, 租

vi. 租

a. 裂, 破裂
rend去去词

[] 租, 租金, 租费



rent
[ noun ]

1. a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service

<noun.possession>

2. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

<noun.object>
there was a rip in his pants
she had snags in her stockings

3. the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

<noun.possession>

4. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

<noun.act>
he gave the envelope a vigorous rip

[ verb ]

1. let for money

<verb.social> lease
We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad

2. grant use or occupation of under a term of contract

<verb.possession> lease let
I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners

3. engage for service under a term of contract

<verb.possession> charter engage hire lease take
We took an apartment on a quiet street
Let's rent a car
Shall we take a guide in Rome?

4. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

<verb.social> charter hire lease

Rend \Rend\ (r[e^]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rent} (r[e^]nt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Rending}.] [AS. rendan, hrendan; cf. OFries.
renda, randa, Fries. renne to cut, rend, Icel. hrinda to
push, thrust, AS. hrindan; or cf. Icel. r[ae]na to rob,
plunder, Ir. rannaim to divide, share, part, W. rhanu, Armor.
ranna.]
1. To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to
tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock
in blasting; lightning rends an oak.

The dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region. --Shak.

2. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.

An empire from its old foundations rent. --Dryden.

I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. --1 Kings
xi. 11.

{To rap and rend}. See under {Rap}, v. t., to snatch.

Syn: To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture;
crack; split.


Rent \Rent\ (r[e^]nt), v. t.
To tear. See {Rend}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.


Rent \Rent\ (r[e^]nt), n. [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita,
fem. sing. or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give
back, pay. See {Render}.]
1. Income; revenue. See {Catel}. [Obs.] ``Catel had they
enough and rent.'' --Chaucer.

[Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent
In wine and bordel he dispent. --Gower.

So bought an annual rent or two,
And liv'd, just as you see I do. --Pope.

2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.]

Death, that taketh of high and low his rent.
--Chaucer.

3. (Law) A certain periodical profit, whether in money,
provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and
tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain
pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his
landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the
lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent
for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation
for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a
sewing machine, etc.

4. (Polit. Econ.)
(a) That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the
landlord for the use of the ``original and
indestructible powers of the soil;'' the excess of the
return from a given piece of cultivated land over that
from land of equal area at the ``margin of
cultivation.'' Called also {economic rent}, or
{Ricardian rent}. Economic rent is due partly to
differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages
of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or
commercial rent less interest on improvements, and
nearly equivalent to ground rent.
(b) Loosely, a return or profit from a differential
advantage for production, as in case of income or
earnings due to rare natural gifts creating a natural
monopoly.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{Black rent}. See {Blackmail}, 3.

{Forehand rent}, rent which is paid in advance; foregift.

{Rent arrear}, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. --Blackstone.

{Rent charge} (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land
in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so
called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of
conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the
payment of it. --Bouvier.

{Rent roll}, a list or account of rents or income; a rental.


{Rent seck} (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any
clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was
made incident to rent seck by Statute 4 George II. c. 28.


{Rent service} (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by
fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such
service being incident to it.

{White rent}, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to
black rent.


Rent \Rent\ (r[e^]nt), v. i.
To rant. [R. & Obs.] --Hudibras.


Rent \Rent\ (r[e^]nt),
imp. & p. p. of {Rend}.


Rent \Rent\ (r[e^]nt), n. [From {Rend}.]
1. An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by
force; a tear.

See what a rent the envious Casca made. --Shak.

2. Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a
separation; as, a rent in the church.

Syn: Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear;
dilaceration; break; fracture.


Rent \Rent\, v. i.
To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five
hundred dollars a year.


Rent \Rent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rented}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Renting}.] [F. renter. See {Rent}, n.]
1. To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to
lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

2. To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the
tennant rents an estate of the owner.