Definition of
Render
- (noun, substance) a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls
- (verb, change) cause to become
- (verb, possession) give something useful or necessary to
- (verb, creation) give an interpretation or rendition of
- (verb, creation) give or supply
This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn
The estate renders some revenue for the family - (verb, communication) pass down
deliver a judgment - (verb, possession) make over as a return
- (verb, possession) give back
- (verb, possession) to surrender someone or something to another
render up the prisoners
render the town to the enemy
fork over the money - (verb, creation) show in, or as in, a picture
the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting - (verb, contact) coat with plastic or cement
- (verb, communication) bestow
render thanks - (verb, communication) restate (words) from one language into another language
Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?
She rendered the French poem into English
He translates for the U.N. - (verb, change) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
render fat in a casserole
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Synonyms of Render
deliver, depict, fork out, fork over, fork up, furnish, generate, give, hand over, interpret, picture, provide, return, show, submit, supply, translate, try, turn in, yield
Alternate forms of Render
Derivations: rendering, rendition
Hyponyms: afford, air-condition, air-cool, alphabetize, arm, articulate, bail, bed, berth, bewhisker, border, bottom, brattice, bush, buy in, calk, canal, canalise, canalize, capitalise, capitalize, caption, causeway, charge, cleat, cloy, coal, computerise, computerize, constitutionalize, copper-bottom, corbel, cornice, costume, crenel, crenelate, crenellate, curtain, dado, date, dedicate, edge, equip, extend, feed, feed back, fire, fit, fit out, flood, fret, fuel, fund, furnish, gate, give, give away, glass, glaze, gloss, glut, grate, hat, headline, headquarter, heat, hobnail, hydrate, illustrate, index, innervate, interleave, joint, kern, key, latinize, leverage, machicolate, map, match, mistranslate, offer, outfit, oversupply, partner, patch, pour, provision, pump, purvey, rafter, rail, railroad, ramp, reflectorise, reflectorize, resubmit, retranslate, retrofit, rim, sanitate, scant, seat, shelter, signalise, signalize, sing, skimp, slat, step, stint, stock, stock up, subtitle, surfeit, tap, terrace, terrasse, theme, ticket, toggle, tool, top, top out, transistorise, transistorize, tube, uniform, upholster, victual, water, wharf, whisker, wive, yield
Hypernyms: coat, communicate, create, do, execute, get, gift, give, hand, ingeminate, 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
Origin of the word Render
- early 14c., "to repeat," from O.Fr. rendre "give back, present, yield," from V.L. *rendere (formed on analogy of its antonym, prendre "to take"), from L. reddere "give back, return, restore," from re- "back" + comb. form of dare "to give" (see date (1)). Meaning "hand over, deliver" is recorded from late 14c.; "to return (thanks, etc.)" more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper