rent

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
发音 rĕnt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property. countable,uncountable
    — I am asking £300 a week rent.
  2. A tear or rip in some surface.
    — [O]ne streak of copper-coloured light made a narrow rent between sea and sky.
  3. A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service. countable,uncountable
  4. A division or schism.
    — [T]he White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.
  5. A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. countable,uncountable
    — A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.
  6. An object for which rent is charged or paid. countable,uncountable
  7. Income; revenue. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
  8. An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent. transitive
    — I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
  2. simple past and past participle of rend form-of,participle,past
  3. To grant a lease in return for rent. informal,transitive
    — We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.
  4. To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money. transitive
  5. To be leased or let for rent. informal,intransitive
    — The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
形容词 adj.
  1. That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
    — 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.

词形变化

rents plural rents present,singular,third-person renting participle,present rented participle,past rented past rents plural more rent comparative most rent superlative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.
词源 2
See rend.
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