render Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls
  2. verb cause to become
    • The shot rendered her immobile
  3. verb give something useful or necessary to
    provide; furnish; supply.
    • We provided the room with an electrical heater
  4. verb give an interpretation or rendition of
    interpret.
    • The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully
  5. verb give or supply
    generate; return; yield; give.
    • The cow brings in 5 liters of milk
    • This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn
    • The estate renders some revenue for the family
  6. verb pass down
    return; deliver.
    • render a verdict
    • deliver a judgment
  7. verb make over as a return
    submit.
    • They had to render the estate
  8. verb give back
    return.
    • render money
  9. verb to surrender someone or something to another
    hand over; deliver; fork over; turn in; fork up; fork out.
    • the guard delivered the criminal to the police
    • render up the prisoners
    • render the town to the enemy
    • fork over the money
  10. verb show in, or as in, a picture
    picture; depict; show.
    • This scene depicts country life
    • the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting
  11. verb coat with plastic or cement
    • render the brick walls in the den
  12. verb bestow
    give.
    • give homage
    • render thanks
  13. verb restate (words) from one language into another language
    translate; interpret.
    • I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S.
    • Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?
    • She rendered the French poem into English
    • He translates for the U.N.
  14. verb melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
    try.
    • try the yak butter
    • render fat in a casserole

WordNet

Rend"er noun
Etymology
From Rend.
Definitions
  1. One who rends.
Ren"der transitive verb
Etymology
F. rendre, LL. rendre, fr. L. reddere; pref. red-, re-, re- + dare to give. See Datetime, and cf. Reddition, Rent.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Rendered present participle & verbal noun Rendering
Definitions
  1. To return; to pay back; to restore.
    Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may. Spenser.
  2. To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
    I will render vengeance to mine enemies. Deut. xxxii. 41.
  3. To give up; to yield; to surrender.
    I 'll make her render up her page to me. Shak.
  4. Hence, to furnish; to contribute.
    Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue. I. Watts.
  5. To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.
  6. To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.
  7. To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.
  8. To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.
    He did render him the most unnatural That lived amongst men. Shak.
  9. To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.
  10. To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.
Ren"der intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To give an account; to make explanation or confession. Obs.
  2. (Naut.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way. Totten.
Ren"der noun
Definitions
  1. A surrender. Obs. Shak.
  2. A return; a payment of rent.
    In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demains. Blackstone.
  3. An account given; a statement. Obs. Shak.

Webster 1913