Dictionary
ren•der
Pronunciation: (ren'dur), [key]—
v.t.
1. to cause to be or become; make:
to render someone helpless.
2. to do; perform:
to render a service.
3. to furnish; provide:
to render aid.
4. to exhibit or show (obedience, attention, etc.).
5. to present for consideration, approval, payment, action, etc., as an account.
6. 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.
7. to pay as due (a tax, tribute, etc.).
8. to deliver formally or officially; hand down:
to render a verdict.
9. to translate into another language:
to render French poems into English.
10. to represent; depict, as in painting:
to render a landscape.
11. to represent (a perspective view of a projected building) in drawing or painting.
12. to bring out the meaning of by performance or execution; interpret, as a part in a drama or a piece of music.
13. to give in return or requital:
to render good for evil.
14. to give back; restore (often fol. by
back).
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.
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v.i.
1. to provide due reward.
2. to try out oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.
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n.
Building Trades.a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.
rend•er
Pronunciation: (ren'dur), [key]—
n.
a person or thing that rends.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
