What's the difference between rant and rent?

Rant


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.
  • (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I took some Bolivian textiles to the interview and ranted on about Eduardo Galeano and Márquez.
  • (2) Eva Carneiro, the Chelsea doctor, has had her responsibilities at the club scaled back after being on the receiving end of a rant from José Mourinho on Saturday, and she is not expected to continue being on the bench during games.
  • (3) Of Khan's murder accusation, Anwar replied: "It's a madman's rant.
  • (4) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (5) As West said in a 2013 Twitter rant , he is interested in consulting all types of people to solve the world’s problems.
  • (6) Now then, in his infamous rant at the press, Joe Kinnear told hacks to ask people like you what they thought of him.
  • (7) Homegrown talent Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s not much in the way of English-speaking talent, but Papi Jiang has become China’s biggest internet sensation after her satirical rants on topics of popular culture went viral on Youku (A Chinese version of YouTube) earlier this year.
  • (8) At first it was everyday stuff like what he wants for dinner but then essentially he began ranting.
  • (9) Donald Trump has reportedly yelled down the telephone at Australia’s prime minister and veered off into rants about China and Nato with French leader François Hollande.
  • (10) Consider their peerless dead parrot sketch which, in many people's memories, ends when Cleese does his huge rant, and Palin grudgingly offers to replace the bird.
  • (11) Those human cytokines known as interleukin 8, platelet factor 4, beta thromboglobulin, IP-10 and melanoma growth stimulating factor or GRO can be assigned to a subfamily based on their location on chromosome 4 and unique structural features, whereas the second subset consisting of LD78, ACT-2, I-309, RANTES, and macrophage chemotactic and activating factor (MCAF) are all closely linked on human chromosome 17.
  • (12) Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lied about the tape recording of his racist rant in a bungled attempt to neutralise the controversy, according to the National Basketball Association.
  • (13) Carneiro had only previously made one post on her public page but she took to the social media platform to “thank the general public for their overwhelming support” in the wake of Mourinho’s rant.
  • (14) Updated at 3.00pm BST 12.58pm BST "I could rant like this for hours... let's do some questions."
  • (15) Or even that little-known film called Pulp Fiction, in which Christopher Walken gives a virtuoso performance as Captain Koons, with a deranged rant about hiding his watch from evil "yellow slopes".
  • (16) Our results indicate that RANTES and MIP-1 alpha are crucial mediators of inflammatory processes in which eosinophils predominate.
  • (17) He spent two days wandering around town … ranting to anyone that would listen.
  • (18) The federations brought forward the launch of their poster campaign against police funding cuts after Mitchell was accused of calling Downing Street police officers "plebs" in a foul-mouthed rant last week.
  • (19) Thus you can witness unironical celebrations of Rand Paul as an original thinker, despite the fact that his every core policy proposal reads like a distorted Xerox of an older Xerox of his father’s decades of rant-pamphleteering.
  • (20) When the allegations against him were first aired on ESPN on Sunday, he ranted on Twitter against Adam Schefter, the journalist who reported them, and dismiss the claims as “lies”.

Rent


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Rend
  • (v. i.) To rant.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Rend.
  • (n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
  • (n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
  • (v. t.) To tear. See Rend.
  • (n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.
  • (n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
  • (n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
  • (v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
  • (2) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
  • (3) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
  • (4) Education is becoming unaffordable because of tuition fees and rent.
  • (5) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
  • (6) Lucy Morton, a senior partner at WA Ellis in Knightsbridge, says most foreign students want one-bed flats at up to £1,000 a week and they often pay the whole year's rent up front.
  • (7) Saving for a deposit is near impossible while paying extortionate rents for barely habitable flatshares.
  • (8) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
  • (9) A separate DWP-commissioned report, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies , on the impact of housing benefit caps for private sector tenants was welcomed by ministers as a sign that fears that the reform would lead to mass migration out of high-rent areas like London were unfounded.
  • (10) Karzai had come under criticism in the past from Afghans for renting the property to international officials.
  • (11) We’ve identified private accommodation that can be used to house refugees; we’ve set aside rented accommodation, university flats and unoccupied housing association homes for use by refugees.
  • (12) It said a government investment of £12bn could build 600,000 shared ownership homes, enough to give almost half of England's private renting families the opportunity to buy.
  • (13) In Palo Alto, there are the people who do really well here, and everyone else is struggling to make ends meet,” said Vatche Bezdikian, an anesthesiologist on his way to lunch on University Avenue, the main street, where Facebook first rented office space.
  • (14) To some extent, housing associations have taken their place, but affordable, social rented homes have been sold off more quickly than they have been replaced.
  • (15) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
  • (16) Their task was to reduce the size of the properties and change the tenure mix from private rented to shared ownership or open market housing.
  • (17) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
  • (18) The average rents in social housing meanwhile increased by 6.1% from £88.90 to £94.30 a week.
  • (19) The scheme, which will be completed in 2016-17, comprises 491 homes for social rent and 300 for private sale.
  • (20) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.