render

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛn.də/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛn.dɚ/

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• Hyphenation: ren‧der
• Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)

From Old French rendre (“to render, to make”), from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of reddō (“return in profit”).

• rendre (archaic)

render (third-person singular simple present renders, present participle rendering, simple past and past participle rendered)

1. (ditransitive) To cause to become.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     […] 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.

   The shot rendered her immobile.

2. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

     we may, at last, render our philosophy like that of Epictetus

   The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully.

3. (transitive) To translate into another language.

   to render Latin into English

4. (transitive) To pass down.

   render a verdict (i.e., deliver a judgment)

5. (transitive) To make over as a return.

   They had to render the estate.

6. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.

   render aid; render money

   to render an account of what really happened

   • I. Watts

     Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue.

7. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
   • Shakespeare

     I'll make her render up her page to me.

8. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.

   rendering images

9. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
10. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.

    rendering of fat into soap

11. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.

    Bacon is very fatty when raw; however, most of the fat will render during cooking.

12. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.

    to render with stucco

13. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.

    A rope renders well, that is, passes freely.

14. (nautical) To yield or give way.

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15. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
    • Spenser

      whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may

16. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
    • Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 41

      I will render vengeance to mine enemies.

• (cause to become): make
• (fat dripping): render off

• renderer, rendering
• render off
• render unto Caesar

render (plural renders)

1. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
2. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.

   A low-resolution render might look blocky.

3. (obsolete) A surrender.

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4. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
   • Blackstone

     In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demesnes.

5. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.

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rend +‎ -er

render (plural renders)

1. One who rends.

• Derner, rendre

render c

1. plural indefinite of rende

render

1. present of rende

render m or f

1. indefinite plural of rand (Etymology 1)

render f

1. indefinite plural of rand (Etymology 1)

From Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddēre, present active infinitive of reddō.

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render (first-person singular present indicative rendo, past participle rendido)

1. to render
2. to yield
3. to dominate, command
4. to subject

From Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddēre, present active infinitive of reddō.

render

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) to return, give back
2. to vomit, throw up, puke, be sick

• (to return, give back):
  • (Rumantsch Grischun) dar enavos, (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) dar anavos, (Puter) der inavous, (Vallader) dar inavo
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) restituir, (Surmiran) restitueir
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) returnar, (Puter) returner, (Vallader) retuornar