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ren·der
(rĕn′dər)tr.v. ren·dered, ren·der·ing, ren·ders
1.
a. To submit or present, as for consideration, approval, or payment: render an opinion; render a bill.
b. To give or make available; provide: render assistance; render a service.
c. To give in return or by obligation: render thanks; rendered homage.
d. To deliver or pronounce formally: render a verdict.
e. To surrender or relinquish; yield: They rendered their lives defending their country.
f. To transfer (a suspect or prisoner) from one country to another by rendition.
2. To cause to become; make: The news rendered her speechless.
3.
a. To represent in verbal form; depict: "Joyce has attempted ... to render ... what our participation in life is like" (Edmund Wilson).
b. To represent in a drawing or painting, especially in perspective.
4. Computers To convert (graphics) from a file into visual form, as on a video display.
5. Music
a. To perform an interpretation of (a musical piece, for example).
b. To arrange: rendered the composition for string quartet.
6. To express in another language or form; translate: rendered the Greek passage into English.
7. To reduce, convert, or melt down (fat) by heating.
8. To coat (brick, for example) with plaster or cement.
n.
A payment in kind, services, or cash from a tenant to a feudal lord.
[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.]
ren′der·a·ble adj.
ren′der·er n.
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render
(ˈrɛndə)vb (tr)
1. to present or submit (accounts, etc) for payment, approval, or action
2. to give or provide (aid, charity, a service, etc)
3. to show (obedience), as due or expected
4. to give or exchange, as by way of return or requital: to render blow for blow.
5. to cause to become: grief had rendered him simple-minded.
6. to deliver (a verdict or opinion) formally
7. to portray or depict (something), as in painting, music, or acting
8. (Computer Science) computing to use colour and shading to make a digital image look three-dimensional and solid
9. to translate (something) into another language or form
10. (sometimes foll by up) to yield or give: the tomb rendered up its secret.
11. (often foll by back) to return (something); give back
12. (Building) to cover the surface of (brickwork, stone, etc) with a coat of plaster
13. (Cookery) (often foll by down) to extract (fat) from (meat) by melting
14. (Nautical Terms) nautical
a. to reeve (a line)
b. to slacken (a rope, etc)
15. (Law) history (of a feudal tenant) to make (payment) in money, goods, or services to one's overlord
n
16. (Building) a first thin coat of plaster applied to a surface
17. (Historical Terms) history a payment in money, goods, or services made by a feudal tenant to his lord
[C14: from Old French rendre, from Latin reddere to give back (influenced by Latin prendere to grasp), from re- + dare to give]
ˈrenderable adj
ˈrenderer n
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ren•der1
(ˈrɛn dər)v.t.
1. to cause to be or become; make.
2. to do; perform.
3. to furnish; provide: to render aid.
4. to exhibit or show (obedience, attention, etc.).
5. to present for approval, payment, etc.
6. to pay as due (a tax, tribute, etc.).
7. to officially hand down: to render a verdict.
8. to translate into another language.
9. to depict, as in painting: to render a landscape.
10. to represent (a perspective view of a projected building) in drawing or painting.
11. to interpret (a part in a drama or a piece of music).
12. to give in return: to render good for evil.
13. to give back; restore (often fol. by back).
14. to give up; surrender.
15. to cover (masonry) with a first coat of plaster.
16. to melt down; extract the impurities from by melting: to render fat.
17. to process, as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses.
v.i. 18. to provide due reward.
19. to extract oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.
n. 20. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.
[1275–1325; rendren < Middle French rendre < Vulgar Latin *rendere, alter. (by analogy with prendere to take) of Latin reddere to give back]
ren′der•er, n.
rend•er2
(ˈrɛn dər)n.
a person or thing that rends.
[1580–90]
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Past participle: rendered
Gerund: rendering
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| Noun | 1. | render - a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls stucco - a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces |
| Verb | 1. | render - cause to become; "The shot rendered her immobile" |
| 2. | render - give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" hydrate - supply water or liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balance; "the bicyclists must be hydrated frequently" charge - energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; "I need to charge my car battery" date - provide with a dateline; mark with a date; "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated" feed - feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity" calk - provide with calks; "calk horse shoes" give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" fund - provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest dado - provide with a dado; "The owners wanted to dado their dining room" innervate - supply nerves to (some organ or body part) offer - make available or accessible, provide or furnish; "The conference center offers a health spa"; "The hotel offers private meeting rooms" extend, offer - make available; provide; "extend a loan"; "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages" stock - provide or furnish with a stock of something; "stock the larder with meat" buy in, stock up, stock - amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use; "let's stock coffee as long as prices are low" caption - provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing tube - provide with a tube or insert a tube into ticket - provide with a ticket for passage or admission; "Ticketed passengers can board now" stock - supply with livestock; "stock a farm" stock - supply with fish; "stock a lake" rim - furnish with a rim; "rim a hat" fret - provide (a musical instrument) with frets; "fret a guitar" step - furnish with steps; "The architect wants to step the terrace" rail - provide with rails; "The yard was railed" grate - furnish with a grate; "a grated fireplace" capitalise, capitalize - supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders alphabetize - provide with an alphabet; "Cyril and Method alphabetized the Slavic languages" wharf - provide with a wharf; "Wharf the mouth of the river" air-cool, air-condition - equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature; "Our house is not air-conditioned" uniform - provide with uniforms; "The guards were uniformed" railroad - supply with railroad lines; "railroad the West" partner - provide with a partner subtitle - supply (a movie) with subtitles headline - provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline match - provide funds complementary to; "The company matched the employees' contributions" hobnail - supply with hobnails wive - provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife victual - supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war" heat - provide with heat; "heat the house" seat - provide with seats; "seat a concert hall" seat - put a seat on a chair ramp - furnish with a ramp; "The ramped auditorium" arm - supply with arms; "The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan" interleave - provide (books) with blank leaves causeway - provide with a causeway; "A causewayed swamp" bush - provide with a bushing brattice - supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines furnish - provide or equip with furniture; "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style" slat - equip or bar with slats; "Slat the windows" berth - provide with a berth bed - furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals" computerise, computerize - provide with computers; "Our office is fully computerized now" costume - furnish with costumes; as for a film or play | |
| 3. | render - give an interpretation or rendition of; "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully" performing arts - arts or skills that require public performance perform, do, execute - carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" sing - deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols" | |
| 4. | render - give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" | |
| 5. | render - pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment" communicate, pass along, put across, pass on, pass - transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news" | |
| 6. | render - make over as a return; "They had to render the estate" law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" | |
| 7. | render - give back; "render money" give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" | |
| 8. |  render - to surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money"hand, pass on, turn over, pass, reach, give - place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" bail - deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period give away - formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride by her father | |
| 9. | render - show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting" artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" interpret, represent - create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl" illustrate - depict with an illustration map - depict as if on a map; "sorrow was mapped on the mother's face" | |
| 10. | render - coat with plastic or cement; "render the brick walls in the den" masonry - the craft of a mason | |
| 11. | render - bestow; "give homage"; "render thanks" communicate, intercommunicate - transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" dedicate - inscribe or address by way of compliment; "She dedicated her book to her parents" give - accord by verdict; "give a decision for the plaintiff" | |
| 12. |  render - restate (words) from one language into another language; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N."ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell - to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" retranslate - translate again mistranslate - translate incorrectly gloss - provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase Latinize - translate into Latin translate - be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English" | |
| 13. | render - melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities; "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
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render
verb
2. provide, give, show, pay, present, supply, deliver, contribute, yield, submit, tender, hand out, furnish, turn over, make available Any assistance you can render him will be helpful.
4. translate, put, explain, interpret, reproduce, transcribe, construe, restate 150 Psalms rendered into English
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
render
or rendorverb
1. To give up a possession, claim, or right:
2. To present a lifelike image of:
4. To express in another language, while systematically retaining the original sense:
5. To express the meaning of in other, especially simpler, words:
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Translations
předložitpřednéstprokázatučinitvzdát
givegøreudføre
tehdätulkita
tesz
flytja, túlkaláta verîaleggja fram; veita aîstoî; òakka
atskaņotatveidotdotizteiktpadarīt
render
[ˈrendəʳ] VT1. (frm) (= give) [+ honour] → dar, rendir; [+ service, assistance] → dar, prestar
to render good for evil → devolver bien por mal
to render thanks to sb → dar las gracias a algn
render unto Caesar → al César lo que es del César (y a Dios lo que es de Dios)
to render an account of one's stewardship → dar cuenta de su gobierno, justificar su conducta durante su mando
to render an account to God → dar cuenta de sí ante Dios
to render good for evil → devolver bien por mal
to render thanks to sb → dar las gracias a algn
render unto Caesar → al César lo que es del César (y a Dios lo que es de Dios)
to render an account of one's stewardship → dar cuenta de su gobierno, justificar su conducta durante su mando
to render an account to God → dar cuenta de sí ante Dios
2. (frm) (= make) → dejar, volver
the accident rendered him blind → el accidente lo dejó ciego
to render sth useless → inutilizar algo
the accident rendered him blind → el accidente lo dejó ciego
to render sth useless → inutilizar algo
3. (= interpret) [+ sonata etc] → interpretar; [+ role, play] → representar, interpretar; (= translate) [+ text] → traducir
no photograph could adequately render the scene → ninguna fotografía podría reproducir con justicia la escena
no photograph could adequately render the scene → ninguna fotografía podría reproducir con justicia la escena
4. (Culin) (also render down) → derretir
5. (Constr) → enlucir
render down VT + ADV [fat] → derretir
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
render
[ˈrɛndər] vt (= make) → rendre
to render sth worthless → rendre qch sans valeur
to render sth useless → rendre qch inutile
The blow rendered him unconscious → Le coup l'avait rendu inconscient.
to render sb powerless → priver qn de tout pouvoir
to render sth worthless → rendre qch sans valeur
to render sth useless → rendre qch inutile
The blow rendered him unconscious → Le coup l'avait rendu inconscient.
to render sb powerless → priver qn de tout pouvoir
(= express) → traduire
The announcements were rendered in English and Spanish → Les communiqués étaient traduits en anglais et en espagnol.
The announcements were rendered in English and Spanish → Les communiqués étaient traduits en anglais et en espagnol.
(COOKERY) [+ fat] → clarifier
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render
vt
(form: = give) service, help → leisten; judgement, explanation → abgeben; homage → erweisen; decision, verdict → fällen; render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s (Bibl, prov) → gebet dem Kaiser, was des Kaisers ist (Bibl); to render thanks to somebody/God → jdm/Gott Dank sagen or abstatten; to render assistance → Hilfe leisten; to render an account of one’s expenditure → Rechenschaft über seine Ausgaben ablegen
(Comm) to render account → Rechnung legen or vorlegen; (to) account rendered £10 → £ 10 laut früherer Rechnung
(also render down) fat → auslassen
(Build) → verputzen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
render
[ˈrɛndəʳ] vta. (thanks, honour, service) → rendere; (account) → presentare
b. (make) → rendere
this renders it impossible for me to leave → questo rende impossibile la mia partenza
this renders it impossible for me to leave → questo rende impossibile la mia partenza
c. (interpret, sonata, role, play) → interpretare; (translate, text) → tradurre
d. (Culin) (fat) → sciogliere
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
render
(ˈrendə) verb1. to cause to become. His remarks rendered me speechless.
2. to give or produce (a service, a bill, thanks etc).
3. to perform (music etc).
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