Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A depiction or interpretation, as in painting or music.
- n. A drawing in perspective of a proposed structure.
- n. A translation: a rendering of Cicero's treatises into English.
- n. A coat of plaster or cement applied to a masonry surface.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of translating; also, a version; translation.
- n. In the fine arts and the drama, interpretation; delineation; reproduction; representation; exhibition.
- n. In plastering:
- n. The laying on of a first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework.
- n. The coat thus laid on.
- n. The process of trying out or clarifying.
Wiktionary
- n. version; translation.
- n. sketch, illustration, or painting.
- n. returning; giving back; assigning; making; translating; surrendering; affording.
- v. present participle of render.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A version; translation.
- n. In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part.
- n. The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework.
- n. The coat of plaster thus laid on.
- n. The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
- n. an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious
- n. a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall
- n. perspective drawing of an architect's design
- n. giving in acknowledgment of obligation
- n. the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance
- n. a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.
Examples
“Subtitle rendering is awful, they look all pixelated on normal 624 x 352 video resolutions.”
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“If she goes anywhere in what you call rendering criminal assistance, which is an accomplice after the fact -- money, food, shelter, anything that would allow him to keep on the run and away from the authorities would be rendering criminal assistance to him by the wife.”
“Title Effects: A new title rendering system has been added along with the ability to add title effects.”
“Microsoft could argue that HTML rendering is a feature that can be leveraged by their and other developers 'applications if it sits in "operating system" space with a well-defined API rather than in competitive "application space" where it is more difficult for thrid party developers to hook into.”
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“The French-born Ms. Paravel has a doctorate and connected with her filmmaking partne r through Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab, which fosters the use of film in rendering the experience of others.”
“I see a definite business opportunity here – create consulting and management firms that specialize in rendering medium sized companies into a collections of small companies, designed to evade the regulation du jour.”
“And to top it off, the bridge as depicted in the above rendering is an anodyne collection of matchsticks, not even a soaring Calatrava creation!”
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“A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.”
“He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole.”
“That which most deliberately seeks to, and successfully manages to, expunge the strange only succeeds in rendering itself bloodless and therefore dead.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rendering’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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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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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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Webbie Debbie's
portend... omen.../whats to come
glum plumportend, sotto, azure, idly, glum, morose, sidelong, Mary Blair, rendering, dubious, winsome, humongous and 100 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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The Shambles
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
"A place or situation referred to as a shambles is usually a mess, but it is no longer always the bloody mess it once was. The history of the wo...rendering, packing plant, meat, hard hat, tallow, greaves, captive bolt pistol, pig scalder, scalding house, boxed beef, oleochemicals, blood meal and 42 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for rendering.
chained_bear I love lambic! Peach! Raspberry! Any kind! Dec 18, 2007
bilby You dig lambic sionnach? Dec 18, 2007
chained_bear I feel incredibly culturally illiterate. I saw that name and immediately thought of Paul Simon's "René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War," and thought, "Oh my gosh, that's a real person!" *hangs head in shame for not knowing that already* Shoot, I even knew about the painting! Dec 18, 2007
sionnach Snap, bilby! Why just 15 minutes ago I read the eggzack same sentence in today's NY Times.
Keep the sprouts - just bring me some frites, beer and chocolate! Dec 18, 2007
bilby "Belgium's favorite Surrealist son, René Magritte, is famous for his painting of an apple on which he wrote: "This is not an apple." He did the same for a pipe. Today he might aptly produce a rendering of his native land and inscribe on it the words: 'This is not a country.'"
- 'This Is Not A Crisis' in International Herald Tribune, Roger Cohen, 17 Dec 2007. Dec 18, 2007