render

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To submit or present, as for consideration, approval, or payment: render a bill.
2. v. To give or make available; provide: render assistance.
3. v. To give what is due or owed: render thanks; rendered homage.
4. v. To give in return or retribution: He had to render an apology for his rudeness.
5. v. To surrender or relinquish; yield.
6. v. To represent in verbal form; depict: "Joyce has attempted . . . to render . . . what our participation in life is like” ( Edmund Wilson).
7. v. To represent in a drawing or painting, especially in perspective.
8. v. Computer Science To convert (graphics) from a file into visual form, as on a video display.
9. v. Music To perform an interpretation of (a musical piece, for example).
10. v. Music To arrange: rendered the composition for string quartet.
11. v. To express in another language or form; translate.
12. v. To deliver or pronounce formally: The jury has rendered its verdict.
13. v. To cause to become; make: The news rendered her speechless.
14. v. To reduce, convert, or melt down (fat) by heating.
15. v. To coat (brick, for example) with plaster or cement.
16. n. A payment in kind, services, or cash from a tenant to a feudal lord.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who rends or tears by violence.
2. To give or pay back; give in return, or in retribution; return: sometimes with back.
3. To give up; yield; surrender.
4. 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.
5. To make or cause to be; cause to become; invest with certain qualities: as, to render a fortress more secure or impregnable.
6. To translate, as from one language into another.
7. 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.
8. To report; exhibit; describe.
9. To reduce; try out; clarify by boiling or steaming: said of fats: as, kettle-rendered lard.
10. In building, to plaster directly on the brickwork and without the intervention of laths.
11. To pass or pull through a pulley or the like, as a rope.
12. Synonyms To restore.
13. To contribute, supply.
14. 5 and Interpret, etc. See translate.
15. To give an account; make explanation or confession.
16. To be put or passed through a pulley or the like.
17. n. A return; a payment, especially a payment of rent.
18. n. A giving up; surrender.
19. n. An account given; a statement; a confession.
20. n. Plaster put directly on a wall.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To cause to become.
2. v. transitive To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
3. v. transitive To translate into another language
4. v. transitive To pass down.
5. v. transitive To make over as a return.
6. v. transitive To give; to give back.
7. 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.
8. v. transitive To capture and turn over to another country secretly.
9. v. transitive To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
10. v. intransitive, cooking For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
11. v. construction To cover a wall with a film of cement.
12. n. A substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls.
13. n. computer graphics An image produced by rendering a model.
14. n. obsolete A surrender.
15. n. obsolete A return; a payment of rent.
16. n. obsolete An account given; a statement.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who rends.
2. v. To return; to pay back; to restore.
3. v. To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
4. v. To give up; to yield; to surrender.
5. v. Hence, to furnish; to contribute.
6. v. To furnish; to state; to deliver.
7. v. To cause to be, or to become
8. v. To translate from one language into another.
9. v. To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit.
10. v. To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances.
11. v. To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.
12. v. obsolete To give an account; to make explanation or confession.
13. v. (Naut.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; ; also, to yield or give way.
14. n. obsolete A surrender.
15. n. A return; a payment of rent.
16. n. obsolete An account given; a statement.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. pass down
2. v. make over as a return
3. v. give something useful or necessary to
4. v. give an interpretation or rendition of
5. n. a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls
6. v. bestow.
7. v. coat with plastic or cement
8. v. cause to become
9. v. show in, or as in, a picture
10. v. restate (words) from one language into another language
11. v. give back
12. v. to surrender someone or something to another
13. v. melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
14. v. give or supply