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render
1[ ren-der ]
verb (used with object)
- to cause to be or become; make:
to render someone helpless.
- to do; perform:
to render a service.
- to furnish; provide:
to render aid.
Synonyms: , , ,
- to exhibit or show (obedience, attention, etc.).
Synonyms:
- 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.
- 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: The game is still playable even if the textures in the environment aren’t always rendered right.
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.
- to give in return or requital:
to render good for evil.
- to give back; restore (often followed by back ).
- to send (a suspected criminal) abroad; subject to rendition.
- to give up; surrender.
Synonyms: ,
- Building Trades. 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.
verb (used without object)
- to provide due reward.
- to separate oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.
- 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
- Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.
render
2[ ren-der ]
noun
- a person or thing that rends or tears something apart forcefully or violently.
render
/ ˈɛԻə /
verb
- to present or submit (accounts, etc) for payment, approval, or action
- to give or provide (aid, charity, a service, etc)
- to show (obedience), as due or expected
- to give or exchange, as by way of return or requital
to render blow for blow
- to cause to become
grief had rendered him simple-minded
- to deliver (a verdict or opinion) formally
- to portray or depict (something), as in painting, music, or acting
- computing to use colour and shading to make a digital image look three-dimensional and solid
- to translate (something) into another language or form
- sometimes foll by up to yield or give
the tomb rendered up its secret
- often foll by back to return (something); give back
- to cover the surface of (brickwork, stone, etc) with a coat of plaster
- often foll by down to extract (fat) from (meat) by melting
- nautical
- to reeve (a line)
- to slacken (a rope, etc)
- history (of a feudal tenant) to make (payment) in money, goods, or services to one's overlord
noun
- a first thin coat of plaster applied to a surface
- history a payment in money, goods, or services made by a feudal tenant to his lord
Derived Forms
- ˈԻ, adjective
- ˈԻ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ··· adjective
- ·· noun
- un···· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of render1
Word History and Origins
Origin of render1
Example Sentences
Currently without a track, their sport's looming extinction could render moral arguments about a ban redundant.
This spirit of loss prevails throughout each of these tautly rendered final episodes in which Cassian becomes the unsung hub around which the revolution spins.
In fact, all 200 or so deportees on those flights have been illegally rendered to El Salvador in blatant defiance of a judge’s court order to stop them or return those already in the air.
The figure is roughly life-size, rendered in spare, firm strokes of black acrylic applied with Japanese brushes to sizable sheets of paper.
ever strategy he chooses in 2028 — running illegally, stealing an election or simply declaring himself president-for-life — his goal is to have rendered the Supreme Court utterly impotent before then.
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