noun
- A substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls.
verb
- Cause to become.
- usage: "The shot rendered her immobile"
- Give something useful or necessary to.
- usage: "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
- Give an interpretation or rendition of.
- usage: "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"
- synonyms: interpret
- Give or supply.
- usage: "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"
- Pass down.
- usage: "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
- Make over as a return.
- usage: "They had to render the estate"
- synonyms: submit
- Give back.
- usage: "render money"
- synonyms: return
- To surrender someone or something to another.
- usage: "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money"
- Show in, or as in, a picture.
- usage: "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
- Coat with plastic or cement.
- usage: "render the brick walls in the den"
- Bestow.
- usage: "give homage"; "render thanks"
- synonyms: give
- Restate (words) from one language into another language.
- usage: "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."
- Melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities.
- usage: "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole"
- synonyms: try
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