Definition of "render"

render¹

/ˈɹɛn.də/

verb
third-person singular simple present renders, present participle rendering, simple past and past participle rendered
1. (ditransitive) To cause to become.
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  […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  This service has suffered badly from Department for Transport-inspired cuts which reduced it from hourly to two-hourly. This, coupled with regular cancellations, has rendered the train service between the area's two biggest towns almost unusable.
  2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57
2. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
  Quotations
  we may, at last, render our philosophy like that of Epictetus
  1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 34
3. (transitive) To translate into another language.
4. (transitive) To pass down.
5. (transitive) To make over as a return.
6. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
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  Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue.
  1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726
7. (transitive, dated) To give up; to yield; to surrender.
  Quotations
  I'll make her render up her page to me.
  c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
8. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
9. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
10. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
11. (intransitive, cooking) To have fat drip off meat from cooking.
12. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
13. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
14. (nautical) To yield or give way.
  Quotations
  The rope of a laniard or tackle is said to render when, by pulling upon one part, each other part takes its share of the strain.
  1867, W. H. Smyth, Sailor's Word-Book
15. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
  Quotations
  whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 14
16. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
  Quotations
  I will render vengeance to mine enemies.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Deuteronomy 32:41
noun
countable and uncountable, plural renders
1. (countable, uncountable) Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
2. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
3. (obsolete) A surrender.
4. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
  Quotations
  In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demesnes.
  1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press
5. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
  Quotations
  And send forth us , to make their sorrow'd render, Together with a recompense more fruitful Than their offence can weigh down by the dram
  c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]

render²

/ˈɹɛn.də/

noun
plural renders
1. One who rends.
  Quotations
  Oh, this render of hearts, this murderer of love, this perpetual crucifier of Christ, […]
  1844, The Christian (volume 1, page 498)

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