different between rent vs slot

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Middle Low German slot or Middle Dutch slot, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slut?. Cognate with German Schloss (“door-bolt”), Dutch slot.

The verb is probably from Middle Dutch sluten (“to close, to lock”) (Modern Dutch sluiten (“to close”)).

Noun

slot (plural slots)

1. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
2. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
3. (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
4. (electrical) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
5. (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
6. (American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.

Translations

Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

1. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
2. (obsolete, transitive, Britain, dialectal) To shut with violence; to slam.

   to slot a door

Etymology 2

From Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). Compare sleuth.

Noun

slot (plural slots)

1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
2. A period of time within a schedule or sequence.

   I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.

3. (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
4. (field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
5. (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
6. (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.

7. (informal) A slot machine designed for gambling.

8. (slang) The vagina.
9. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 216[2]:

     The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves
10. (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.

Derived terms

• slotwise
• slot-hound

Translations

Verb

slot (third-person singular simple present slots, present participle slotting, simple past and past participle slotted)

1. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
2. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
3. To put something where it belongs.
4. (slang, Rhodesia, in the context of the Rhodesian Bush War) To kill.
5. (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
6. (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.

Derived terms

• slot in

See also

• close
• sluice

Anagrams

• LTOs, OSLT, OTLs, STOL, lost, lots, tols

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German slot (“bolt, lock, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *slut?, related to the verb *sleutan? (“to lock”); cognate with German Schloss (“lock, castle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sl?d?]

Noun

slot n (singular definite slottet, plural indefinite slotte)

1. castle, palace, manor house

Inflection

Derived terms

• sandslot

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slot, from Old Dutch *slot, from Proto-Germanic *slut?, related to the verb *sleutan? (“to lock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?t/
• Hyphenation: slot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

slot n (plural sloten, diminutive slotje n)

1. lock (something used for fastening)
2. castle
3. end, conclusion

Synonyms

• (castle): kasteel, burcht
• (end): eind, einde

Derived terms

• (lock): op slot
• (castle): slotgracht, slottoren
• (end): tenslotte, ten slotte, slotpleidooi, slotrede

Related terms

• sleutel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: slot
• ? Indonesian: selot

Anagrams

• lost, stol