Rent

[rent] or [rɛnt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; 'he gave the envelope a vigorous rip'.

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

(verb.) let for money; 'We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad'.

(verb.) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services.

錄入:玛丽--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(imp. & p. p.) of Rend

(v. i.) To rant.

(-) imp. & p. p. of Rend.

(n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

(n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

(v. t.) To tear. See Rend.

(n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.

(n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.

(n.) 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.

(n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

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

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

手打:菲尔

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Break, breach, fissure, crack, rift, cleft, gap, opening, flaw, rupture, disrupture, disruption, fracture, laceration, dilaceration, tear, solution of continuity.

整理:保罗

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Laceration, rupture, fissure, divulsion, schism, solution

ANT:Suture, junction, union, continuity, integrity, reparation, redintegration,reunion, consolidation

丹尼校對

解釋/意思:

pa.t. and pa.p. of rend.

n. annual payment in return for the use of property held of another esp. houses and lands: revenue.—v.t. to hold or occupy by paying rent: to let or to hire for a rent.—v.i. to be let for rent: to endow.—adj. Rent′able.—ns. Rent′al a schedule or account of rents with the tenants' names &c.: a rent-roll: rent; Rent′aller; Rent′-charge a rent on a conveyance of land in fee simple; Rent′-day the day on which rents are paid; Rente (Fr.) annual income; Rent′er one who holds by paying rent for; Rent′er-ward′en the warden of a company who receives rents.—adj. Rent′-free without payment of rent.—ns. Rent′-gath′erer a collector of rents; Rent′-roll a roll or account of rents: a rental or schedule of rents.

n. an opening made by rending: fissure: break: tear: a schism as a rent in a church.

手打:南希