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Meaning of RENDER

Pronunciation:  'rendur

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [v]  cause to become; "The shot rendered her immobile"
  2. [v]  melt (fat, lard, etc.) in order to separate out impurities; "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole"
  3. [v]  restate (words) from one language into another language; "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."
  4. [v]  bestow; "give hommage"; "render thanks"
  5. [v]  pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
  6. [v]  give or supply; "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"
  7. [v]  show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
  8. [v]  give an interpretation or rendition of; "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"
  9. [v]  to surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"
  10. [v]  give back; "render money"
  11. [v]  Law: make over as a return; "They had to render the estate"
  12. [v]  provide or furnish with; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"; "render assistence"
 
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 Synonyms: deliver, deliver, depict, furnish, generate, get in, give, give, hand over, interpret, picture, provide, return, return, return, show, submit, supply, translate, try, turn in, yield
 
 See Also: afford, air-condition, 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, communicate, computerise, computerize, constitutionalize, copperbottom, corbel, cornice, costume, create, crenel, crenelate, crenellate, curtain, date, dedicate, do, edge, equip, execute, extend, feed, feed back, fire, fit, fit out, flood, fuel, fund, gate, get, gift, give, give away, glass, glaze, gloss, glut, grate, hand, headline, heat, hobnail, hydrate, illustrate, index, ingeminate, innervate, intercommunicate, interleave, interpret, iterate, joint, key, latinize, leverage, machicolate, make, make, map, match, melt, melt down, mistranslate, offer, outfit, oversupply, partner, pass, pass, pass on, pass on, patch, perform, pour, present, produce, provision, pump, purvey, put across, rafter, rail, railroad, ramp, reach, reflectorise, reflectorize, reiterate, repeat, represent, restate, resubmit, retell, retranslate, retrofit, run, sanitate, scant, seat, shelter, signalise, signalize, sing, skimp, slat, stint, stock, subtitle, surfeit, tap, terrace, terrasse, toggle, tool, top, transistorise, transistorize, turn over, uniform, upholster, victual, water, wharf, whisker, wive, yield

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Rend"er\ (-?r), n. [From {Rend}.]
One who rends.

  2. \Ren"der\ (r?n"d?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rendered}
(-d?rd);p. pr. & vb. n. {Rendering}.] [F. rendre, LL. rendre,
fr. L. reddere; pref. red-, re-, re- + dare to give. See
{Date}time, and cf. {Reddition}, {Rent}.]
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.

  3. \Ren"der\, v. i.
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.

  4. \Ren"der\, n.
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.
 

 

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