to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.
to do; perform: to render a service.
to furnish; provide: to render aid.
to exhibit or show (obedience, attention, etc.).
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.
to use the processing power of computer hardware and software to synthesize (the components of an image or animation) in a final graphic output.
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 (def. 4).
to give up; surrender.
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 try out oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.
noun
Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.
Origin of render
1
1275–1325; Middle English rendren<Middle French rendre<Vulgar Latin *rendere, alteration (formed by analogy with prendere to take) of Latin reddere ‘to give back’, equivalent to red-red- + -dere, combining form of dare ‘to give’