render
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛn.də/
ipa: /ˈɹɛn.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: renders
form: rendering
form: rendered
form: rendered
form: rendre
Etymology: From Middle English renderen, rendren, from Old French rendre (“render, give back”), from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere (“make, give back”).
Senses: examples: text: The shot rendered her immobile.
text: […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: This service has suffered badly from Department for Transport-inspired cuts which reduced it from hourly to two-hourly. This, coupled with regular cancellations, has rendered the train service between the area's two biggest towns almost unusable.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:
glosses: To cause to become.
examples: text: The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully.
text: we may, at last, render our philosophy like that of Epictetus
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 34:
glosses: To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
examples: text: to render Latin into English
glosses: To translate into another language.
examples: text: render a verdict (i.e., deliver a judgment)
glosses: To pass down.
examples: text: They had to render the estate.
glosses: To make over as a return.
examples: text: render aid; render money
text: to render an account of what really happened
text: Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue.
ref: 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
text: The first thing that greets you on entering the church is a notice asking you not to vex the goat, since it renders valuable service in keeping the churchyard tidy.
ref: 1980, AA book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:
glosses: To give; to give back; to deliver.
examples: text: I'll make her render up her page to me.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To give up; to yield; to surrender.
examples: text: rendering images
text: They will feature full-motion-video backgrounds that will behave as if rendered in 3-D—the Rabbids will duck behind and jump over real objects as if they were designed into the stage.
ref: 2007 December 24, Andy Salisbury, “Rascally Rabbids”, in Nintendo Power, volume 222, page 32:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
topics: art
arts
glosses: To apply realistic coloring and shading.
glosses: To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
examples: text: rendering of fat into soap
glosses: To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
examples: text: Bacon is very fatty when raw; however, most of the fat will render during cooking.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To have fat melt off meat from cooking.
examples: text: to render with stucco
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
examples: text: A rope renders well, that is, passes freely.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
examples: text: The rope of a laniard or tackle is said to render when, by pulling upon one part, each other part takes its share of the strain.
ref: 1867, W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-Book:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To yield or give way.
examples: text: whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14:
glosses: To return; to pay back; to restore.
examples: text: I will render vengeance to mine enemies.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 32:41:
glosses: To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
Synonyms: sense: cause to become
word: make
sense: bestow
word: accord
sense: fat dripping
word: render off
Derived terms: pre-render
render down
renderer
rendering
render off
render unto Caesar