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Verb: render  ren-du(r)
  1. Give something useful or necessary to
    "The company rendered assistance to its employees during the crisis";
    - supply, provide, furnish, offer
     
  2. Cause to become
    "The shot rendered her immobile"
     
  3. Perform or do in a particular way
    "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully";
    - interpret
     
  4. Give or supply
    "The estate renders some revenue for the family";
    - yield, return, give, generate
     
  5. Show in, or as in, a picture
    "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting";
    - picture, depict, show
     
  6. Restate (words) from one language into another language
    "She rendered the French poem into English";
    - translate, interpret
     
  7. (masonry) coat with plastic or cement
    "render the brick walls in the den"
     
  8. Give back
    "render money";
    - return
     
  9. To surrender someone or something to another
    "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy";
    - hand over, turn in, deliver
     
  10. (law) make over as a return
    "They had to render the estate";
    - submit
     
  11. Pass down
    "render a verdict";
    - deliver, return
     
  12. Bestow
    "render thanks";
    - give
     
  13. (cooking) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
    "render fat in a casserole";
    - try
     
  14. (computing) convert a digital description of something into an image that can be displayed on screen
    "The 3D software took several minutes to render the complex scene"
     
  15. Convert waste animal tissue into usable by-products
    "The carcasses were rendered into pet food"
Noun: render  ren-du(r)
  1. A substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls
    "The builders applied render to the brick exterior for a smoother finish"

Derived forms: rendered, rendering, renders

Type of: coat, communicate, create, do, execute, get, gift, give, hand, ingeminate [archaic], intercommunicate, interpret, iterate, make, melt, melt down, pass, pass along, pass on, perform, present, produce, put across, reach, reiterate, repeat, represent, restate, retell, run, stucco, surface, turn over

Encyclopedia: Render, George