ren·der

1 [ren-der]
verb (used with object)
1.
to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.
2.
to do; perform: to render a service.
3.
to furnish; provide: to render aid.
4.
to exhibit or show (obedience, attention, etc.).
5.
to present for consideration, app roval, payment, action, etc., as an account.
6.
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.
7.
to pay as due (a tax, tribute, etc.).
8.
to deliver formally or officially; hand down: to render a verdict.
9.
to translate into another language: to render French poems into English.
10.
to represent; depict, as in painting: to render a landscape.
11.
to represent (a perspective view of a projected building) in drawing or painting.
12.
to bring out the meaning of by performance or execution; interpret, as a part in a drama or a piece of music.
13.
to give in return or requital: to render good for evil.
14.
to give back; restore (often followed by back ).
15.
to send (a suspected criminal) abroad; subject to rendition ( def 4 ).
16.
to give up; surrender.
17.
Building Trades. to cover (masonry) with a first coat of plaster.
18.
to melt down; extract the impurities from by melting: to render fat.
19.
to process, as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses.
verb (used without object)
20.
to provide due reward.
21.
to try out oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.
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noun
22.
Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.
Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English rendren < Middle French rendre < 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’

Related forms
ren·der·a·ble, adjective
ren·der·er, noun
un·ren·der·a·ble, adjective
un·ren·dered, adjective
well-ren·dered, adjective

Synonyms
3. give, supply, contribute, afford. 4. demonstrate. 15. cede, yield.
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rend·er

2 [ren-der]
noun
a person or thing that rends.
Origin:
1580–90; rend + -er1

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render (ˈrɛndə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—vb
1.  to present or submit (accounts, etc) for payment, approval, or action
2.  to give or provide (aid, charity, a service, etc)
3.  to show (obedience), as due or expected
4.  to give or exchange, as by way of return or requital: to render blow for blow
5.  to cause to become: grief had rendered him simple-minded
6.  to deliver (a verdict or opinion) formally
7.  to portray or depict (something), as in painting, music, or acting
8.  computing to use colour and shading to make a digital image look three-dimensional and solid
9.  to translate (something) into another language or form
10.  (sometimes foll by up) to yield or give: the tomb rendered up its secret
11.  (often foll by back) to return (something); give back
12.  to cover the surface of (brickwork, stone, etc) with a coat of plaster
13.  (often foll by down) to extract (fat) from (meat) by melting
14.  nautical
 a.  to reeve (a line)
 b.  to slacken (a rope, etc)
15.  history (of a feudal tenant) to make (payment) in money, goods, or services to one's overlord
 
—n
16.  a first thin coat of plaster applied to a surface
17.  history a payment in money, goods, or services made by a feudal tenant to his lord
 
[C14: from Old French rendre, from Latin reddere to give back (influenced by Latin prendere to grasp), from re- + dare to give]
 
'renderable
 
—adj
 
'renderer
 
—n

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render
early 14c., "to repeat," from O.Fr. rendre "give back, present, yield," from V.L. *rendere (formed on analogy of its antonym, prendre "to take"), from L. reddere "give back, return, restore," from re- "back" + comb. form of dare "to give" (see date (1)). Meaning "hand over,
deliver" is recorded from late 14c.; "to return (thanks, etc.)" is attested from late 15c.; meaning "represent, depict" is first attested 1599. Rendering "extracting or melting of fat" is attested from 1792; sense of "reproduction, representation" is from 1862.
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Example sentences
One illness or accident could render our safety nil.
Eventually, these machines will begin their own process of evolution and render
  us extinct in our present form.
He is base,-and that is the one base thing in the universe,-to receive favors
  and render none.
Legal reformers back attempts to render the party-directed judiciary more
  independent.
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