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precipitable (medicine)


precipitable


Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution.

<chemistry> See Precipitate,

Source: Websters Dictionary


rent(1) (iou)



rent noun1. ME.
[Old & mod. French RENTE, from Proto-Romance base repr. also by RENDER verb.]
a. In pl. Sources of revenue or income; separate pieces of property yielding a certain return to the owner. ME-E17.
b. Revenue, income. ME-L18.
A tax or similar charge levied by or paid to a person. ME-L18.
A periodical payment made by a tenant to an owner or landlord for the use of land or buildings. Now also, the sum paid for the hire of machinery etc. for a certain time. ME.
R. Crossman Questions about rateable value and..the fair-rent clauses. E. Feinstein They were seriously behind with the rent.
b. A piece of property for which rent is charged or paid; (esp. in pl.) a number of buildings let out to others. LME.
R. Kipling Rents lay..two miles from Gunnison Street.
c. Hist. A portion of the value of produce from land, which was paid to a landlord for use of the land. E19.
In France: a sum paid as interest on a public Debt. L17-M18.
Money, cash, esp. that acquired by criminal means or in exchange for homosexual favours. Also = rent boy below. E19.
Phrases: ECONOMIC rent. for rent (chiefly N. Amer.) available to be rented. quit-rent: see QUIT adjective. RACK-RENT. rent of ability Economics financial gain resulting from a particular skill or ability. rent of assise: see ASSIZE noun 1. wet rent: see WET adjective. white rent: see WHITE adjective.
Comb.: rent boy slang a young male prostitute; rent car US a hire-car; rent-charge Law a rent forming a charge on lands etc., granted or reserved by deed in favour of a person, with a clause of distress in case of arrears (cf. RENT-SECK); rent-charger a person who receives or benefits from a rent-charge; rent-free adjective with exemption from rent; rent party US: at which the guests pay money towards the host's rent; rent-roll a register of lands and buildings owned by a person, together with the rents due from them; the sum of a person's income from rent; rent-service personal service by which lands or buildings are held in addition to, or in lieu of, money payment; rent strike a refusal to pay rent, usu. by a number of people as a protest; rent table an 18th-cent. office table.
rentage noun rent, rental; something which is rented: M17.
rentless adjective1 (a) producing no rent; (b) rent-free: M17.