render
/'rendə/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To provide or give something: To hand over, deliver, or submit something, often as a payment, service, or judgment.
- To cause to become or make: To bring something into a specified state or condition.
- To represent, depict, or perform: To portray something artistically through words, music, or visual art, or to execute a performance.
- To translate or express in another language or form: To convert words or ideas from one language or medium into another.
- To melt down or process: To extract a substance, especially fat, by heating.
Usage
The verb render is used in formal, technical, and artistic contexts. It often implies a transformation, a formal act of giving, or a specific process of making. - It is commonly followed by a direct object and an object complement (e.g., render something useless). - In artistic contexts, it is used with works of art, music, or translation. - In technical contexts, it refers to processing materials or generating computer graphics.
Examples
- To provide or give:
- The jury will render its verdict tomorrow.
- He rendered assistance to the victims.
- To cause to become:
- The storm rendered the roads impassable.
- The shocking news rendered her speechless.
- To represent or perform:
- The artist rendered the landscape with great skill.
- She rendered the aria beautifully.
- To translate:
- It is difficult to render this idiom accurately into another language.
- To melt down:
- They render fat to make soap.
Advanced Usage
- Render an account: To provide a detailed report or explanation.
- The manager must render an account of the project's expenses.
- Render a service: To do a helpful act or favor.
- He rendered a great service to the community with his volunteer work.
- Render unto Caesar...: A biblical phrase meaning to give what is due to authority. Often used figuratively.
- We must render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's—in this case, paying our taxes.
Variants and Related Words
- Rendering (noun): A performance, interpretation, or translation. Also, a coat of plaster applied to a wall.
- His rendering of the song was very emotional.
- The wall needed a new rendering of cement.
- Renderer (noun): A person or thing that renders, especially a computer program that generates images from models.
- Renderable (adjective): Capable of being rendered.
Synonyms
- Provide: To make available for use; supply.
- Deliver: To bring and hand over.
- Make: To cause to be or become.
- Depict: To represent by a drawing, painting, or other art form.
- Translate: To express the sense of words in another language.
Phrasal Verbs / Related Phrases
- Render down: To melt fat in order to purify it or separate it.
- First, you need to render down the lard.
- Render up (archaic/literary): To surrender or hand over.
- The garrison was forced to render up the fortress.
Idioms
- Render assistance/help/aid: To give help.
- The government pledged to render assistance to the flooded region.
- Render someone helpless/speechless/etc.: To cause someone to be in a particular state.
- His generosity rendered me speechless.
Noun
- a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls
Verb
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- try the yak butter
- render fat in a casserole
- 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.
- bestow
- give homage
- render thanks
- coat with plastic or cement
- render the brick walls in the den
- 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
- 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
- give back
- render money
- make over as a return
- They had to render the estate
- pass down
- render a verdict
- deliver a judgment
- 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
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully
- give something useful or necessary to
- We provided the room with an electrical heater
- cause to become
- The shot rendered her immobile