Rent vs. Book — What's the Difference?

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 book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex (plural, codices).

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

A written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers

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

A bound set of blank sheets for writing in

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 set of tickets, stamps, matches, samples of cloth, etc., bound together

An opening made by rending; a rip.

Reserve (accommodation, a place, etc.); buy (a ticket) in advance

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

Make an official note of the personal details of (a person who has broken a law or rule)

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

Leave suddenly

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

A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.

To be for rent

An e-book or other electronic resource structured like a book.

A past tense and a past participle of rend.

A printed or written literary work

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

A main division of a larger printed or written work

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

A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.

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

Books Financial or business records considered as a group

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

A libretto.

(obsolete) Income; revenue.

The script of a play.

A tear or rip in some surface.

The Bible.

A division or schism.

The Koran.

(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based

(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.

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

The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task

(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

(Informal) Factual information, especially of a private nature

Simple past tense and past participle of rend

A pack of like or similar items bound together

That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

A record of bets placed on a race.

To rant.

(Games) The number of card tricks needed before any tricks can have scoring value, as the first six tricks taken by the declaring side in bridge.

To tear. See Rend.

To arrange for or purchase (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.

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

To arrange a reservation, as for a hotel room, for (someone)

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

To hire or engage

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

To list or register in a book

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

To list or record appointments or engagements in

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

To record information about (a suspected offender) after arrest in preparation for arraignment, usually including a criminal history search, fingerprinting, and photographing.

Income; revenue. See Catel.

(Sports) To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.

Pay; reward; share; toll.

To designate a time for; schedule

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.

To be hired for or engaged in

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.

To make a reservation

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

(Informal) To move or travel rapidly

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

Of or relating to knowledge learned from books rather than actual experience

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

Appearing in a company's financial records

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.

Let for money;

A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;

A major division of a long work.

Engage for service under a term of contract;

(gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).

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

(informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.

A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.

(theatre) The script of a musical or opera.

Records of the accounts of a business.

A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).

(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.

(poker slang) Four of a kind.

(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.

A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.

(cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.

(figurative) Any source of instruction.

(with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.

A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.

(transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.

(transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.

(transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.

To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.

(sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.

To travel very fast.

To record bets as bookmaker.

To receive the highest grade in a class.

To leave.

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.

A composition, written or printed; a treatise.

A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."

A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.; - often used in the plural; as, they got a subpoena to examine our books.

Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of bridge or whist, being the minimum number of tricks that must be taken before any additional tricks are counted as part of the score for that hand; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.

A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; - used in preparing for a performance.

A set of paper objects (tickets, stamps, matches, checks etc.) bound together by one edge, like a book; as, he bought a book of stamps.

A book or list, actual or hypothetical, containing records of the best performances in some endeavor; a recordbook; - used in the phrase one for the book or one for the books.

The set of facts about an athlete's performance, such as typical performance or playing habits or methods, that are accumulated by potential opponents as an aid in deciding how best to compete against that athlete; as, the book on Ted Williams suggests pitching to him low and outside.

Same as book value.

The list of current buy and sell orders maintained by a stock market specialist.

The purchase orders still outstanding and unfilled on a company's ledger; as, book to bill ratio.

To enter, write, or register in a book or list.

To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; to reserve{2}; also, to make an arrangement for a reservation; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater; to book a reservation at a restaurant.

To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.

To make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); - performed by police.

A written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together);

Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together;

A record in which commercial accounts are recorded;

A number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge;

A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone;

A major division of a long written composition;

A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance

A collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made;

The sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina

The sacred writings of the Christian religions;

Record a charge in a police register;

Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance;

Engage for a performance;

Register in a hotel booker