rent
rent)n. 1. 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 similar payment made for the
use of a facility, equipment, or service provided by another. 2. The return
derived from cultivated or improved land after deduction of all production
costs. 3. The revenue yielded by a piece of land in excess of that
yielded by the poorest or least favorably located land under equal market
conditions. In this sense, also calledeconomic rent. v. rent-ed, rent-ing,
rents.v. tr. 1. To obtain occupancy or use of (another's property) in return
for regular payments. 2. To grant temporary occupancy or use of (one's own
property or a service) in return for regular payments: rents out TV sets.v.
intr. To be for rent: The cottage rents for $200 a month. --idiom. for rent.
Available for use or service in return for payment.[Middle English rente, from
Old French, from Vulgar Latin *rendita, from feminine past participle of
-rendere, to yield, return. See RENDER.]--rent'a-bil'i-ty n. --rent'a-ble adj.
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pre-serve
(pri-zurv)v. pre-served, pre-serv-ing,
pre-serves.v. tr. 1. To maintain in safety from injury, peril, or harm;
protect. 2. To keep in perfect or unaltered condition; maintain unchanged.
3. To keep or maintain intact: tried to preserve family harmony. See Synonyms
at defend. 4. To prepare (food) for future use, as by canning or salting. 5. To
prevent (organic bodies) from decaying or spoiling. 6. To keep or protect (game
or fish) for one's private hunting or fishing.v. intr. 1. To treat fruit or
other foods so as to prevent decay. 2. To maintain a private area stocked with
game or fish.n. 1. Something that acts to preserve; a preservative. 2. Often preserves. Fruit cooked with sugar to
protect against decay or fermentation. 3. An area maintained for the protection
of wildlife or natural resources. 4. Something considered as being the
exclusive province of certain persons:
Excerpted from
American Heritage Talking Dictionary
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And
the
Lord God
took
the
man,
*
and
he
took
one
of
his
ribs,
**
she
took
of the
fruit
thereof,
*
but
Rebekah loved
Jacob.
**
And Lamech
took
unto
him
two wives:
*
And Enoch
walked
with God:
for
God
took
him.
*
and
he
made
him
a
coat
of
many
colours.
*
And they
took
him,
and cast
him into
a pit:
*
Except
The
God
of
my father,
the
God
of
Abraham,
and
the
fear
of
Isaac,
had been
with
me,
surely
thou
hadst
sent
me
away
now
empty.
*
and the
pit
was
empty,
there
was
no
water
***
I
was at
ease,
***
But for
Adam
there
was not found
an
help meet
for
him.
*
but
he . . .
*
but
he
that
shall come forth
out
of
thine
own
bowels
shall
be
thine heir.
**
. . . hath
broken
me
asunder:
**
And Rebekah
took
goodly
raiment
of
her eldest son Esau,
which were
with her
in the house,
and put
them
upon Jacob
her
younger son:
And she
put the
skins
of the
kids
of
the goats
upon his hands,
and upon
the
smooth
of
his neck:
*
he hath
also
taken
me
by
my neck,
**
The yoke
of
my
transgressions
is
bound
by
his
hand:
they
are
wreathed,
and come
up
upon
my neck:
he
hath made
my strength
to fall,
the Lord
hath
delivered
me
into their hands,
**
And the land
was not
able
to
bear them,
that
they
might dwell
together:
for their
substance
was great,
so
that
they
could
not
dwell
together.
***
from
whom
I am
not able
to
rise up.
The Lord
hath
trodden
under
foot
all
my
mighty men
in
the midst
of
me:
he
hath called
an
assembly against
me
to
crush
my
young men:
**
And the
damsel
was
very fair to look upon,
a virgin,
neither had any man known
her:
and
she
went down
to the
well,
and filled
her
pitcher,
and came up.
*
the Lord
hath
trodden
the
virgin,
the daughter
of
Judah,
asin
a
winepress.
**
The Lord
hath
swallowed up
all the
habitations
of
Jacob,
and hath
not
pitied:
**
And God said,
Let the waters
bring
forth
abundantly
the
moving
creature
that
hath
life,
*
he
hath
thrown down
in his
wrath
the
strong holds
of the
daughter of Judah;
**
And Jacob
said
to
Simeon
*
if Jacob
take
a
wife
of
the
daughters
of
Heth,
such as these which are
of the
daughters
of
the land,
what good
shall
my life
do me?
*
and Levi,
Ye
have troubled
me
to
make me
to
stink among
the
inhabitants
of
the land,
among
the Canaanites
and
the
Perizzites:
And
I
being few
in
number,
they shall
gather themselves
together
against me,
and slay
me;
and
I
shall
be
destroyed,
I and
my house.
And they
said,
Should he
deal
with our sister
as with
an
harlot?
*
What wilt
thou
give
me,
that
thou
mayest come
in
unto me?
And
he
said,
I
will send
thee
a kid
from
the
flock.
**
He
hath
brought them down
to the
ground:
he
hath polluted
the kingdom
and the princes
thereof.
He
hath
cut off
in his
fierce anger
all
the
horn
of
Israel:
he hath
drawn back
his
right
hand
from
before
the
enemy,
and
he
burned against
Jacob
like
a
flaming fire,
which
devoureth
round about.
He
hath bent
his
bow
like
an enemy:
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