| 1. | an act or instance of interpretation, rendition, or depiction, as of a dramatic part or a musical composition: her rendering of the part of Hedda. |
| 2. | a translation: Chapman's rendering of Homer. |
| 3. | a representation of a building, interior, etc., executed in perspective and usually done for purposes of presentation. |
| 4. | Building Trades. render 1 (def. 21). |
| 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, approval, 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 fol. by back). |
| 15. | to give up; surrender. |
| 16. | Building Trades. to cover (masonry) with a first coat of plaster. |
| 17. | to melt down; extract the impurities from by melting: to render fat. |
| 18. | to process, as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses. |
| 19. | to provide due reward. |
| 20. | to try out oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting. |
| 21. | Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface. |

rendering graphics, text
The conversion of a high-level object-based description into a graphical image for display.
For example, ray-tracing takes a mathematical model of a three-dimensional object or scene and converts it into a bitmap image. Another example is the process of converting HTML into an image for display to the user.
(2001-02-06)