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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ren•der1 /ˈrɛndɚ/USA pronunciation v. - to cause (something) to be or become (something else);
make:[~ + object + adjective]The blow to the head rendered him unconscious. - to furnish;
provide; help: [~ + object]to render aid.[~ + object + object]You've rendered us a valuable service. - to pay (someone) as due (money, a tax, tribute, etc.): [~ + object]to render taxes to the Empire.[~ + object + object]to render the government the money you owe.
- to translate into another language:[~ + object]to render the fairy tale from German into English.
- to represent, interpret, or show in drawing, painting, performing, or acting:[~ + object]to render a landscape in bright hues; to render a song.
- to melt down:[~ + object]to render fat.
See -rend-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ren•der1 (ren′dər),USA pronunciation v.t. - 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 give in return or requital:to render good for evil.
- to give back;
restore (often fol. by back). - 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.
v.i. - to provide due reward.
- to try out oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.
n. - Buildinga first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.
- 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
- Middle French rendre
- Middle English rendren 1275–1325
ren′der•a•ble, adj. ren′der•er, n. - 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged give, supply, contribute, afford.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged demonstrate.
- 15.See corresponding entry in Unabridged cede, yield.
rend•er2 (ren′dər),USA pronunciation n. - a person or thing that rends.
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