1A performance of a piece of music or drama.

1. 1.1 A translation.
   a literal rendering of an idiom

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   • This never-been-done-before adaptation of a timeless tale gives a fuller rendering of the book that is normally achievable in a classic adaptation.
   • It is as far from a literal rendering of Akhmatova's verse as it is from the book's dominant temperament.
   • Given a brilliant translator and a minor text, couldn't a rendering actually exceed the original?
   • Literary translations-that is, renderings that were not specifically designed to assist in the teaching of Latin or Greek-were left with no direct rhetorical utility to recommend them.
   • Indeed, translators were quick to admit that their renderings were but starting points for readers who wished to become familiar with the ancients.
2. 1.2 An artistic depiction of something.
   a trompe l'oeil rendering of Mount Rushmore

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   • Pierson's scrawled-letter drawings in ink and graphite, sometimes accompanied by expressionist renderings of faces, hands and objects, recall works of concrete poetry.
   • In addition to measured drawings of churches, Gimson's sketchbooks from the 1880s include renderings of traditional farm buildings, country furniture, and craft tools.
   • The architectural rendering is central to this process.
   • What's important to remember is that, historically, most people only knew what the royals looked like through painted portraits or artist's renderings (if they even had access to them).
   • Primarily used at night, the building is shown in night renderings to express how the building can glow and invite the community inside.
   • That is, does the artistic rendering seem real?
   • The result was a collection of thousands of beautiful and precise renderings that serve as accurate records of the fruits of that era.
   • Years of early art, pencil sketches, architectural renderings, magazine covers, newspaper clippings and personal photographs are also on display in the new gallery.
   • Visually these pictures have weight, with their brushy renderings of peasants, soldiers, flower gardens or heads popping up like jack-in-the-boxes.
   • Site visitors can access photographs and artists' renderings that provide a wild ride from the microscope through the telescope and beyond.
   • And this is an architect's rendering of the house, with some additions I want added.
   • There are also instructive parallels between Schneider's work and two photographers who explored painterly and imaginative renderings of the body.
   • His sixfold screen, Pine Wood (Tokyo National Museum), is a masterly rendering in monochrome ink of a grove of trees enveloped in mist.
   • Second, look for unusually accurate renderings of the human form.
   • The unusual display highlighted the relief elements in the stylized renderings of a Ferris wheel, a simple house and a self-portrait.
   • He dropped the architectural rendering when taking to the front of the room.
   • Most melancholic of all is the rendering of the relics of a destroyed Lenin statue as Lenin's resting place.
   • In its stark, relatively empty setting, Self-Portrait with Pumpkin wryly contrasts an image of the seated artist with virtuosic renderings of a gorgeous pumpkin and a large hollow log.
   • Geometric patterns as well as realistic renderings of people and animals were common.
   • They did not appear that way in the artist's rich rendering.
   • It was a government-sponsored project employing artists to make remarkably accurate watercolor renderings of folk art objects throughout the United States.
   • He went to a lot of trouble to give a detailed and accurate rendering of the Louvre, and it shows.
   • Because the schematic renderings leave out as much as they leave in, they exude a minimalist reserve.
   • They are admittedly livelier than his uncle's sole contribution, a stately architectural rendering of the Grand Canal in Venice on a rainy day.
   • The collection of prints includes a mix of abstract architectural renderings, building perspectives and chamber impressions.
   • Long known for Abstract-Expressionist renderings of the figure, he eventually began to place those figures in landscapes.
   • An architectural rendering calls on the viewer to accept a visual depiction as an indication of the proposed physical reality.
   • He flipped to the next page and studied an artists' rendering of the landscaped park.
   • Townsend's contemporary work combines photo-realistic renderings of surreal settings which include cityscapes, organic forms and common objects.
   • All of them are nudes and convincing as renderings of specific persons.
   • A full range of styles, from figurative and abstraction to portraiture, landscape, naturalism and cartoon-like renderings, is on display.
   • The paintings first appear to be straightforward - if somewhat naive and cartoonish - renderings of landscapes, circus performers, the Cathedral of Notre Dame and porcelain vases.
   • There are very few finished renderings of the buildings, and carefully choreographed photographs are scant.
3. 1.3Computing mass noun The processing of an outline image using colour and shading to make it appear solid and three-dimensional.
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   • Like conventional rendering, the scene is passed to the geometry processing engine where the polygons are transformed into view space.
   • In particular, real-time 3D graphics rendering is not yet capable of global illumination.
   • For professional usage, when time is money, using a dual core CPU for 3D rendering is a must.
   • Traditional polygon texture-based rendering, and even programmable shading is not that difficult anymore, per Kirk.
   • However, when it comes to final rendering, the number of processor cores does matter a lot.

2mass noun The action of applying plaster to a wall.

1. 2.1count noun A coating of plaster applied to a wall.
   the walls can be of rendering, timber, or stone

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   • It was agreed that rendering beneath a dpc, or in this case beneath a false dpc but nevertheless still in close proximity to the ground, should not have been included in the design.
   • Prior to fixing coving we would recommend Hydrotite being applied to finish plastered rendering, to same height as PVC coves.
   • For instance, in a terrace of houses it would be important to retain the original rendering on the walls and keep the sliding sash windows and front railing, because these features affect the whole ensemble.

3formal mass noun The action of giving or surrendering something.