Borrow vs. Rent
Difference Between Borrow and Rent
Borrowverb
To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
Rentnoun
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
Borrowverb
To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.
Rentnoun
A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
Borrowverb
To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of anotherRentnoun
(economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.Borrowverb
(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
Rentnoun
An object for which rent is charged or paid.
Borrowverb
(arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
Rentnoun
(obsolete) Income; revenue.
Borrowverb
To lend.
Rentnoun
A tear or rip in some surface.
Borrowverb
To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
Rentnoun
A division or schism.
Borrowverb
To feign or counterfeit.
Rentverb
(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
Borrownoun
(golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.Rentverb
(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
Borrownoun
A borrow pit.
Rentverb
(transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
Borrownoun
(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
Rentverb
(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.Borrownoun
(archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
Rentverb
simple past tense and past participle of rend
Borrowverb
get temporarily;
May I borrow your lawn mower?Rentnoun
a regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property
Borrowverb
take up and practice as one's own
Rentnoun
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;
there was a rip in his pantsshe had snags in her stockingsRentnoun
the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
Rentnoun
the act of rending or ripping or splitting something;
he gave the envelope a vigorous ripRentverb
let for money;
We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroadRentverb
grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;
I am leasing my country estate to some foreignersRentverb
engage for service under a term of contract;
We took an apartment on a quiet streetLet's rent a carShall we take a guide in Rome?Rentverb
hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
