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render: Meaning and Definition of
ren•der
Pronunciation: (ren'dur), [key] — v.t.
- to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.
- to do; perform: to render a service.
- to furnish; provide: to render aid.
- to exhibit or show (obedience, attention, etc.).
- to present for consideration, approval, payment, action, etc., as an account.
- to return; to make (a payment in money, kind, or service) as by a tenant to a superior: knights rendering military service to the lord.
- to pay as due (a tax, tribute, etc.).
- to deliver formally or officially; hand down: to render a verdict.
- to translate into another language: to render French poems into English.
- to represent; depict, as in painting: to render a landscape.
- to represent (a perspective view of a projected building) in drawing or painting.
- to bring out the meaning of by performance or execution; interpret, as a part in a drama or a piece of music.
- to give in return or requital: to render good for evil.
- to give back; restore (often fol. by back).
- to give up; surrender.
- to cover (masonry) with a first coat of plaster.
- to melt down; extract the impurities from by melting: to render fat.
- to process, as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses.
—v.i. - to provide due reward.
- to try out oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.
—n. - a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.
rend•er
Pronunciation: (ren'dur), [key] — n.
- a person or thing that rends.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.