Gash vs. Rent — What's the Difference?

To make a long deep cut in; slash deeply.

Payment, usually of an amount fixed by contract, made by a tenant at specified intervals in return for the right to occupy or use the property of another.

A long deep cut.

A similar payment made for the use of a facility, equipment, or service provided by another.

A deep flesh wound.

The return derived from cultivated or improved land after deduction of all production costs.

A deep cut.

The difference between the price paid for use of a resource whose supply is inelastic and the minimum price at which that resource would still be provided. Also called economic rent.

A vulva.

An opening made by rending; a rip.

A woman.

A breach of relations between persons or groups; a rift.

Rubbish, spare kit.

To obtain occupancy or use of (another's property) in return for regular payments.

(slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft.

To grant temporary occupancy or use of (one's own property or a service) in return for regular payments

(slang) Unused film or sound during film editing.

To be for rent

(slang) Poor-quality beer, usually watered down.

A past tense and a past participle of rend.

(slang) Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.

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

Ghastly; hideous

A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.

To make a deep, long cut; to slash.

(economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.

To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; - applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.

(obsolete) Income; revenue.

A wound made by cutting;

A tear or rip in some surface.

A trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation

A division or schism.

A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

Cut open;

(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

(transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.

(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

Simple past tense and past participle of rend

That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

To rant.

To tear. See Rend.

To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

Income; revenue. See Catel.

Pay; reward; share; toll.

A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the "original and indestructible powers of the soil;" the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the "margin of cultivation." Called also economic rent, or Ricardian rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent.

A regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

The return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

Let for money;

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;

Engage for service under a term of contract;

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services