render

/'rendə/
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render

The artist renders a detailed landscape in watercolor.

Definition
  1. 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'sin 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.
render

The artist renders a detailed landscape in watercolor.

Noun
  1. a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls
Verb
  1. melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
    • try the yak butter
    • render fat in a casserole
  2. 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.
  3. bestow
    • give homage
    • render thanks
  4. coat with plastic or cement
    • render the brick walls in the den
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. give back
    • render money
  8. make over as a return
    • They had to render the estate
  9. pass down
    • render a verdict
    • deliver a judgment
  10. 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
  11. give an interpretation or rendition of
    • The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully
  12. give something useful or necessary to
    • We provided the room with an electrical heater
  13. cause to become
    • The shot rendered her immobile