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Render   /rˈɛndər/   Listen
verb
Render  v. t.  (past & past part. rendered;pres. part. rendering)  
1.
To return; to pay back; to restore. "Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may."
2.
To inflict, as a retribution; to requite. "I will render vengeance to mine enemies."
3.
To give up; to yield; to surrender. "I 'll make her render up her page to me."
4.
Hence, to furnish; to contribute. "Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue."
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."
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.


Render  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.


noun
Render  n.  One who rends.


Render  n.  
1.
A surrender. (Obs.)
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."
3.
An account given; a statement. (Obs.)





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"Render" Quotes from Famous Books



... adequately render the impression a battle in the dark makes. Each time a shot is fired you see a flash of fire several yards long, and where about 500 or 600 rifles are being fired at a short distance from you, it makes one think of a gigantic display ...
— My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War • Ben Viljoen
... Nietzsche's profoundest views on marriage were ever intended to be given over to the public at all, at least not for the present. They appear in the biography by his sister, and although their wisdom is unquestionable, the nature of the reforms he suggests render it impossible for them to become popular ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche
... nor can thinker tell So vast a vault or so deep a well, As where the glory of God's own love On cradle-mirror falls from above. Your soul is brighter, your heart more tender, When by the cradle your thanks you render. ...
— Poems and Songs • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
... could render this young lady the greatest possible service by lending her the money for ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... purified for a while the fetid inner darkness with divine light. She had entered the room, with her own base interests to serve. In her small sordid way she, like her employer, was persecuted by debts—miserable debts to sellers of expensive washes, which might render her ugly complexion more passable in Ovid's eyes; to makers of costly gloves, which might show Ovid the shape of her hands, and hide their colour; to skilled workmen in fine leather, who could tempt Ovid to look at her high instep, and her fine ankle—the only beauties ...
— Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time • Wilkie Collins


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