different between rent vs trench

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

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

trench (plural trenches)

1. A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
2. (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
3. (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
4. (informal) A trench coat.
   • 1999, April 24, Xiphias Gladius <[email protected]>, "Re: trenchcoat mafia", ne.general.selected, Usenet:

     I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black trench.

   • 2007, Nina Garcia, The Little Black Book of Style, HarperCollins, as excerpted in Elle, October, page 138:

     A classic trench can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything.

Derived terms

Related terms

• tranche

Translations

Verb

trench (third-person singular simple present trenches, present participle trenching, simple past and past participle trenched)

1. (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwoods, page 68:

     Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature?

   • 1949, Charles Austin Beard, American Government and Politics, page 16:

     He could make what laws he pleased, as long as those laws did not trench upon property rights.

   • 2005, Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham, On War, page 261:

     [O]ur ideas, therefore, must trench upon the province of tactics.

2. (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

   • Advanc'd upon the field there stood a mound
     Of earth congested, wall'd , and trench'd around

3. (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
4. To have direction; to aim or tend.
   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature

     the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate

5. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
6. To cut furrows or ditches in.

7. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.

French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??nt?/

Noun

trench m (plural trenchs)

1. trench coat

Italian

Etymology

From English trench coat.

Noun

trench m (invariable)

1. trench coat