Rend vs. Rent — What's the Difference?

To tear or pull something apart with force.

Past tense of "rend," meaning torn apart.

To violently separate or break something.

Payment, usually of an amount fixed by contract, made by a tenant at specified intervals in return for the right to occupy or use the property of another.

To tear something into pieces violently.

A similar payment made for the use of a facility, equipment, or service provided by another.

To cause great emotional pain or distress.

The return derived from cultivated or improved land after deduction of all production costs.

Tear (something) into pieces

The difference between the price paid for use of a resource whose supply is inelastic and the minimum price at which that resource would still be provided. Also called economic rent.

To tear or split apart or into pieces violently.

An opening made by rending; a rip.

(transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst

A breach of relations between persons or groups; a rift.

(transitive) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate.

To obtain occupancy or use of (another's property) in return for regular payments.

(intransitive) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

To grant temporary occupancy or use of (one's own property or a service) in return for regular payments

A violent separation of parts.

To be for rent

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.

A past tense and a past participle of rend.

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

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

To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

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

Tear or be torn violently;

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

To split or divide something forcefully.

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

(obsolete) Income; revenue.

A tear or rip in some surface.

A division or schism.

(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

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

(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

Simple past tense and past participle of rend

That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

To rant.

To tear. See Rend.

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

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

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

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

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

Income; revenue. See Catel.

Pay; reward; share; toll.

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.

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.

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

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

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

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

Let for money;

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;

Engage for service under a term of contract;

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

To have been split or divided by force.

To have caused emotional pain or distress.

To have broken or disrupted something.

To have torn apart a material or object.

"Rend" means to tear something forcefully or violently.

As a noun, "rent" refers to the payment made for the use of property, such as an apartment or house.

"Rend" is used to describe the act of tearing something apart, while "rent" can describe the result of tearing (as a verb) or the payment for property use (as a noun).

Yes, "rent" as a noun is used in present contexts to refer to property payment, while as a verb, it is the past tense of "rend."

Yes, "rend" can describe causing great emotional pain or distress.

"The beast's claws rend the flesh of its prey."

"Rend" is a verb.

As a verb, "rent" is the past tense and past participle of "rend," meaning something has been torn apart.

"They pay rent for their apartment every month."

"Rent" as a verb meaning "torn apart" is less commonly used in modern language but is still correct.

"Rent" can be both a verb (past tense of "rend") and a noun (payment for property use).

Yes, "rent" as a verb is the past tense of "rend."

When related to property, "rent" implies a payment made for the temporary use of the property.

"Rend" is most frequently used in contexts describing violent tearing or intense emotional distress.

"The storm rent the trees from the ground."