Borrow vs. Rent

Borrowverb

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

Borrowverb

To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.

Borrowverb

To adopt (an idea) as one's own.

Borrowverb

(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.

Borrowverb

(arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.

Borrowverb

To lend.

Borrowverb

To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

Borrowverb

To feign or counterfeit.

Borrownoun

(golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.

Borrownoun

A borrow pit.

Borrownoun

(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.

Borrownoun

(archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.

Borrowverb

To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; - the opposite of lend.

Borrowverb

To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; - a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.

Borrowverb

To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.

Borrowverb

To feign or counterfeit.

Borrowverb

To receive; to take; to derive.

Borrownoun

Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.

Borrownoun

The act of borrowing.

Borrowverb

get temporarily;

Borrowverb

take up and practice as one's own

Rentnoun

A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.

Rentnoun

A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.

Rentnoun

(economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.

Rentnoun

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

Rentnoun

(obsolete) Income; revenue.

Rentnoun

A tear or rip in some surface.

Rentnoun

A division or schism.

Rentverb

(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

Rentverb

(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

Rentverb

(transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.

Rentverb

(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

Rentverb

simple past tense and past participle of rend

Rentverb

To rant.

Rentverb

To tear. See Rend.

Rentverb

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

Rentverb

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

Rentverb

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

Rent

imp. & p. p. of Rend.

Rentnoun

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

Rentnoun

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

Rentnoun

Income; revenue. See Catel.

Rentnoun

Pay; reward; share; toll.

Rentnoun

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.

Rentnoun

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.

Rentnoun

a regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property

Rentnoun

an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

Rentnoun

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

Rentnoun

the act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

Rentverb

let for money;

Rentverb

grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;

Rentverb

engage for service under a term of contract;

Rentverb

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