different between abyss vs rent

English

Alternative forms

• abysm, abime

Etymology

From Middle English abissus, from Late Latin abyssus (“a bottomless gulf”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (ábussos, “bottomless”), from ?- (a-, “not”) + ?????? (bussós, “deep place”), from ????? (buthós, “deep place”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?s/, /æ?b?s/, enPR: ?-b?s'
• Rhymes: -?s
• Hyphenation: a?byss

Noun

abyss (plural abysses)

1. Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
2. (frequently figuratively) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]
3. Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]
4. Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.

5. An impending catastrophic happening.
6. (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon.
7. (oceanography) The abyssal zone.
8. (figuratively) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.

Usage notes

• (impending catastrophic happening): It is typically preceded by the word the.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:abyss.

Synonyms

• (difference): gulf

Derived terms

Related terms

• abysmal

Translations

References

Anagrams

• bassy

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?nt, IPA^(key): /??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old English renta, from Old French rente and Medieval Latin renta, both from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of redd?.

Noun

rent (countable and uncountable, plural rents)

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

   I am asking £100 a week rent.
2. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
3. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.

4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
5. (obsolete) Income; revenue.

   • [Bacchus] a wastor was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Finnish: ränttü

Translations

Verb

rent (third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented)

1. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

2. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

3. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
4. (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

Translations

See also

• hire

Etymology 2

From Middle English renten (“to tear”). Variant form of renden.

Noun

rent (plural rents)

1. A tear or rip in some surface.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10

     The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.
2. A division or schism.
   • 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:

     […] the White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.

Translations

Verb

rent

1. simple past tense and past participle of rend

Adjective

rent (comparative more rent, superlative most rent)

1. That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

Anagrams

• tern, tren

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re??nt/, [??æ?nd?]

Adjective

rent

1. neuter singular of ren

Adverb

rent

1. purely (morally)
2. purely (excluding other possibility)
3. quite, completely

Derived terms

• gøre rent (“to clean”)
• rent ud (“point-blank”)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt
• IPA^(key): /r?nt/

Verb

rent

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of rennen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of rennen

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

rent

1. neuter singular of ren

Adverb

rent

1. purely

Verb

rent

1. past participle of renne

References

• “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

rent

1. past participle of renna

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?nt/

Adjective

rent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of ren.

Adverb

rent (comparative renare, superlative renast)

1. cleanly
2. purely