Tear vs. Rent — What's the Difference?

To pull apart or into pieces by force; rend.

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.

To cause to be pulled apart unintentionally, as by accident

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

To lacerate (the skin, for example).

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

To make (an opening) in something by pulling it apart or by accident

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.

To separate forcefully; wrench

An opening made by rending; a rip.

To divide or disrupt

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

To become torn

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

To move with heedless speed; rush headlong

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

To become filled with tears

To be for rent

The act of tearing.

A past tense and a past participle of rend.

The result of tearing; a rip or rent

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

A great rush; a hurry.

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

(Slang) A carousal; a spree.

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

A drop of the clear salty liquid that is secreted by the lachrymal gland of the eye to lubricate the surface between the eyeball and eyelid and to wash away irritants.

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

Tears A profusion of this liquid spilling from the eyes and wetting the cheeks, especially as an expression of emotion.

(obsolete) Income; revenue.

Tears The act of weeping

A tear or rip in some surface.

A drop of a liquid or hardened fluid.

A division or schism.

(transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.

(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

(transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.

(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

(transitive) To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.

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

(transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.

(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

To remove by tearing.

Simple past tense and past participle of rend

To demolish

That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

(intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.

To rant.

(intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.

To tear. See Rend.

(intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.

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

(intransitive) To produce tears.

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

A hole or break caused by tearing.

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

(slang) A rampage.

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

A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.

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

Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.

Income; revenue. See Catel.

(glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.

Pay; reward; share; toll.

That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.

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.

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.

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.

Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.

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

That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.

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

The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.

Let for money;

Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;

To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.

Engage for service under a term of contract;

To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

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

To move violently; to agitate.

To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.

To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.

A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands;

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

An occasion for excessive eating or drinking;

The act of tearing;

Separate or cause to separate abruptly;

To separate or be separated by force;

Move quickly and violently;

Strip of feathers;

Fill with tears or shed tears;