Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To submit or present, as for consideration, approval, or payment: render a bill.
- v. To give or make available; provide: render assistance.
- v. To give what is due or owed: render thanks; rendered homage.
- v. To give in return or retribution: He had to render an apology for his rudeness.
- v. To surrender or relinquish; yield.
- v. To represent in verbal form; depict: "Joyce has attempted . . . to render . . . what our participation in life is like” ( Edmund Wilson).
- v. To represent in a drawing or painting, especially in perspective.
- v. Computer Science To convert (graphics) from a file into visual form, as on a video display.
- v. Music To perform an interpretation of (a musical piece, for example).
- v. Music To arrange: rendered the composition for string quartet.
- v. To express in another language or form; translate.
- v. To deliver or pronounce formally: The jury has rendered its verdict.
- v. To cause to become; make: The news rendered her speechless.
- v. To reduce, convert, or melt down (fat) by heating.
- v. To coat (brick, for example) with plaster or cement.
- n. A payment in kind, services, or cash from a tenant to a feudal lord.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who rends or tears by violence.
- To give or pay back; give in return, or in retribution; return: sometimes with back.
- To give up; yield; surrender.
- To give; furnish; present; afford for use or benefit; often, to give officially, or in compliance with a request or duty: as, to render assistance or service; the court rendered judgment.
- To make or cause to be; cause to become; invest with certain qualities: as, to render a fortress more secure or impregnable.
- To translate, as from one language into another.
- To interpret, or express for others, the meaning, spirit, and effect of; reproduce; represent: as, to render a part in a drama, a piece of music, a scene in painting, etc.
- To report; exhibit; describe.
- To reduce; try out; clarify by boiling or steaming: said of fats: as, kettle-rendered lard.
- In building, to plaster directly on the brickwork and without the intervention of laths.
- To pass or pull through a pulley or the like, as a rope.
- Synonyms To restore.
- To contribute, supply.
- 5 and Interpret, etc. See translate.
- To give an account; make explanation or confession.
- To be put or passed through a pulley or the like.
- n. A return; a payment, especially a payment of rent.
- n. A giving up; surrender.
- n. An account given; a statement; a confession.
- n. Plaster put directly on a wall.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To cause to become.
- v. transitive To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- v. transitive To translate into another language
- v. transitive To pass down.
- v. transitive To make over as a return.
- v. transitive To give; to give back.
- v. transitive, computer graphics To transform digital information in the form received from a repository into a display on a computer screen, or for other presentation to the user.
- v. transitive To capture and turn over to another country secretly.
- v. transitive To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- v. intransitive, cooking For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
- v. construction To cover a wall with a film of cement.
- n. A substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls.
- n. computer graphics An image produced by rendering a model.
- n. obsolete A surrender.
- n. obsolete A return; a payment of rent.
- n. obsolete An account given; a statement.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who rends.
- v. To return; to pay back; to restore.
- v. To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
- v. To give up; to yield; to surrender.
- v. Hence, to furnish; to contribute.
- v. To furnish; to state; to deliver.
- v. To cause to be, or to become
- v. To translate from one language into another.
- v. To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit.
- v. To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances.
- v. To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.
- v. obsolete To give an account; to make explanation or confession.
- v. (Naut.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; ; also, to yield or give way.
- n. obsolete A surrender.
- n. A return; a payment of rent.
- n. obsolete An account given; a statement.
WordNet 3.0
- v. pass down
- v. make over as a return
- v. give something useful or necessary to
- v. give an interpretation or rendition of
- n. a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls
- v. bestow.
- v. coat with plastic or cement
- v. cause to become
- v. show in, or as in, a picture
- v. restate (words) from one language into another language
- v. give back
- v. to surrender someone or something to another
- v. melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- v. give or supply
Etymologies
- From Old French rendre ("to render, to make"), from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of reddō ("return in profit"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English rendren, from Old French rendre, to give back, from Vulgar Latin *rendere, alteration of Latin reddere (influenced by prēndere, to grasp) : red-, re-, re- + dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Extend ActionController:: RenderOption register the module for a particular render key (define a method called _render_# render: yaml ⇒ "hello", the first parameter would be set any appropriate headers; most commonly, you will want to set the set the response_body”
“By Tusar N Mohapatra 6:39 AM You maintain that "the extreme diversity of intended meanings of the term render it effectively meaningless.”
“It also features a built-in render engine while sketch-up requires a 3rd party app of plug-in.”
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“If the plot of a novel requires that the villain render Nancy Drew unconscious, this may occur only by means of a blow to her head from behind; no chloroform, no needles.”
“The delicacy and the dignity of meaning attaching to the word render it an epithet especially appropriate to Beatrice, as implying all that is loveliest in person and character.”
“He must also be prepared to lend a hand in carrying the wounded; and, in short, render himself as useful as possible, and thus prove himself a friend of officer and man.”
“One of the greatest services it can render is to take hold of this unusual talent, no matter what its property qualifications or its social condition may be; for wherever talent is found, it should be developed and put to the use of the state.”
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“Well then, turn about; I am going to pay them a visit, and you call render me a service.”
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
“Why does the NAB and in this case also the New Jerusalem Bible render the Greek word πορνείᾳ (porneia) as "unlawful marriage”
“The title includes one of those words which has multiple and different meanings namely render which is allowing me to play games between the poetic meaning and that of rendering so ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘render’.
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hunting
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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Talk Talk
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lexicon
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Orwellian Purism
Words and phrases George Orwell criticizes in his essay 'Politics and the English Language'.
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GRE 2014
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
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Peri-odd-icals
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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Undo
A list of terms that denote separating one thing from another, or deconstructing a thing into its parts or to a former state. E.g., untie, divorce, unscramble.
untie, divorce, unscramble, disunite, disjoin, undo, separate, disassemble, uncouple, unhitch, disassociate, disaffiliate and 185 more...
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Verbages
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phil vocab 3
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My List
frugal, vicissitude, scatter, fiduciary, calf, mesmerize, eke, unkempt, callousness, heist, fumble, flinty and 31 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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words unknown
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Tweets
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mn the adequate preventive measures are rendered. Jan 14, 2010
bilby low-end fry operation is pretty good too. Feb 13, 2009
skipvia I find it a little disturbing that installing an indoor grease reservoir with outside drainpipe access only "all but eliminates" vermin infestation. Why go to all that expense if, the next time you dipstick your grease reservoir, you still might find vermin?
I've got to see this in action someday... Feb 12, 2009
reesetee When you find out, skipvia, don't tell me. Feb 12, 2009
skipvia I have got to subscribe to this journal, if only to find out exactly what a "vermin-infested stow" is and how one goes about dipsticking one. Feb 12, 2009
sionnach The National Magazine of Rendering.
Sample content, from the February 2000 issue (courtesy of mcsweeneys.net):
Tom Genack covers recent technological advances in Grease Removal Systems Equipment (GRSE), specifically the indoor grease reservoir with outside drainpipe access. The indoor reservoir, designed for mid-sized restaurants and low-end fry operations, should all but eliminate spoilage and vermin problems. To drain it, GRSE technicians will need a rig fitted with vacuum pumps and a flowmeter - neither of which comes cheap - but any GRSE technician who's dipsticked a vermin-infested stow will tell you it's well worth it. Feb 12, 2009
skipvia Good one, yarb! Oct 20, 2007
reesetee Ha! Oct 19, 2007
yarb Render unto Caesar fat which is Caesar's. Oct 19, 2007
seanahan It is neither greasy nor slippery when describing graphics. Oct 19, 2007
skipvia See rendition, sadly. Oct 19, 2007
sionnach A greasy, slippery kind of word, with both culinary and political overtones. Oct 19, 2007