different between renovating vs maintenance

English

Verb

renovating

1. present participle of renovate

English

Etymology

From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus ten?re (“to hold in the hand”). Surface analysis is maintain +? -ance.

Note that maintain has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence is spelt with -tain-, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?nt(?)n?ns/, /?me?nt?n?ns/

Noun

maintenance (usually uncountable, plural maintenances)

1. Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
2. (law) A tort committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
3. (law, Britain) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
4. (law) Child support.
5. Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
6. (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.

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Further reading

• maintenance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• maintenance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• maintenance at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

maintenir (“to maintain”) +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??t.n??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

maintenance f (plural maintenances)

1. maintenance

Further reading

• “maintenance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).