render

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[ ren-der ]
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verb (used with object)
  1. to cause to be or become;make: to render someone helpless.

  2. to do; perform: to render a service.

  1. to furnish; provide: to render aid.

  2. to exhibit or show (obedience, attention, etc.).

  3. to present for consideration, approval, payment, action, etc., as an account.

  4. 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.

  5. to pay as due (a tax, tribute, etc.).

  6. to deliver formally or officially; hand down: to render a verdict.

  7. to translate into another language: to render French poems into English.

  8. to represent; depict, as in painting: to render a landscape.

  9. to represent (a perspective view of a projected building) in drawing or painting.

  10. to bring out the meaning of by performance or execution; interpret, as a part in a drama or a piece of music.

  11. Digital Technology.

    • to use the processing power of computer hardware and software to synthesize (the components of an image or animation) in a final graphic output: I’m able to render the lighting in this scene much faster now, thanks to my new graphics card.

    • to load (game assets) in a video game, displaying objects, textures, geometry, lighting, etc., on screen in their complete intended form: My laggy connection didn’t render the enemies until I was basically standing on top of them.The game is still playable even if the textures in the environment aren’t always rendered right.

  12. to give in return or requital: to render good for evil.

  13. to give back; restore (often followed by back).

  14. to send (a suspected criminal) abroad; subject to rendition.

  15. to give up; surrender.

  16. Building Trades. to cover (masonry) with a first coat of plaster.

  17. to melt down; extract the impurities from by melting: to render fat.

  18. to process, as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses.

verb (used without object)
  1. to provide due reward.

  2. to separate oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.

  1. Digital Technology. (of assets in a video game) to load so they are visible to the player in their complete intended form: There is a long delay before the geometry renders when I change zones, so sometimes I find my character walking in place up against a wall when the world finally loads.

noun
  1. Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.

Origin of render

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First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English rendren, from Middle French rendre, from unattested Vulgar Latin rendere, alteration (formed by analogy with prendere “to take”) of Latin reddere “to give back,” equivalent to red- prefix meaning “again” or “again and again” + -dere, combining form of dare “to give”; see red-

Other words for render

Other words from render

  • ren·der·a·ble, adjective
  • ren·der·er, noun
  • un·ren·der·a·ble, adjective

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Other definitions for render (2 of 2)

render2
[ ren-der ]

noun
  1. a person or thing that rends or tears something apart forcefully or violently.

Origin of render

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First recorded in 1580–90; rend + -er1

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How to use render in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for render

render

/ (ˈrɛndə) /


verb(tr)
  1. to present or submit (accounts, etc) for payment, approval, or action

  2. to give or provide (aid, charity, a service, etc)

  1. to show (obedience), as due or expected

  2. to give or exchange, as by way of return or requital: to render blow for blow

  3. to cause to become: grief had rendered him simple-minded

  4. to deliver (a verdict or opinion) formally

  5. to portray or depict (something), as in painting, music, or acting

  6. computing to use colour and shading to make a digital image look three-dimensional and solid

  7. to translate (something) into another language or form

  8. (sometimes foll by up) to yield or give: the tomb rendered up its secret

  9. (often foll by back) to return (something); give back

  10. to cover the surface of (brickwork, stone, etc) with a coat of plaster

  11. (often foll by down) to extract (fat) from (meat) by melting

  12. nautical

    • to reeve (a line)

    • to slacken (a rope, etc)

  13. history (of a feudal tenant) to make (payment) in money, goods, or services to one's overlord

noun
  1. a first thin coat of plaster applied to a surface

  2. history a payment in money, goods, or services made by a feudal tenant to his lord

Origin of render

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C14: from Old French rendre, from Latin reddere to give back (influenced by Latin prendere to grasp), from re- + dare to give

Derived forms of render

  • renderable, adjective
  • renderer, noun

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