Difference between Rent and Snag

What is the difference between Rent and Snag?

Rent as a noun is a payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property. while Snag as a noun is a stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.

Rent

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service. A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. A tear or rip in some surface. A division or schism between two things.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To occupy premises in exchange for rent. To grant occupation in return for rent. To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

Example sentence: I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

Snag

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projectionTo fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the targetTo pick up (something)

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.One of the secondary branches of an antler.As in cloth, a pulled thread or yarn.A problem or difficulty with something.A sausage.A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).

We hope you now know whether to use Rent or Snag in your sentence.

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