What's the difference between rented and tented?

Rented


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Rent

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.

Tented


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Tent
  • (a.) Covered with tents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
  • (2) The dog was discovered in a tent during a clean-up after thousands of festival-goers left the site.
  • (3) In fact the aim for many of those braving increasingly chilly nights inside the tents is to be here until Christmas at least.
  • (4) Hugo de Armas, 37, from Tenerife, whose tent was one of the first to arrive outside St Paul's, said: "We have created a space for dialogue, I hope to stay here for Christmas, longer."
  • (5) They need tents very badly,” said Kempo Chimed Tsering.
  • (6) We chat to a lovely woman in the Samaritans tent, which is manned in shifts.
  • (7) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
  • (8) Stuart Fraser, the corporation's policy chairman, said: "We took this action to clear the tents and equipment at St Paul's.
  • (9) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
  • (10) Thirty-day-old corn seedlings, grown in the greenhouse with different concentrations of supplemental nitrate nitrogen, were moved to a constant-temperature growth chamber and sealed in a 560-liter tent made of polyvinyl chloride.
  • (11) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.
  • (12) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
  • (13) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
  • (14) Hastily packing his one-man tent, the youngster set off walking from Idomeni, alone.
  • (15) Nosheen Iqbal, writer Discovering the Acoustic Tent (and its real ale supplies) After nearly three decades of Glastonbury attendance, this year I finally made it up the hill to the Acoustic Tent.
  • (16) In 2013 , a 16-year-old boy was lounging outside his tent at a Minnesota campsite when a wolf clamped its jaws around his head.
  • (17) We need a different, big-tent approach – one in which no one is too rich or poor to be part of our party.
  • (18) Their red and black flag flies above several of the tents in Kiev's sprawling downtown protest city; young volunteers – unarmed but wearing khaki fatigues – have commandeered a boutique and a city council office.
  • (19) The tented village around St Paul's – 200 canvas homes and counting – has acquired an increasingly permanent feel, and now boasts a bookshop, information centre and a prayer room.
  • (20) The more the president rules by decree – and one faction in the Brotherhood argues that he should issue a constitutional decree of his own, annulling the content of the decree Scaf issued within hours of the closing of the presidential polls – the more he risks alienating his future political partners in the broad-tent political coalition he intends to set up both under him as president, and under the prime minister he intends to nominate.

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