render

English

/ˈɹɛn.də/, /ˈɹɛn.dɚ/

verb
Definitions
  • (ditransitive) To cause to become.
  • (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
  • (transitive) To translate into another language.
  • (transitive) To pass down.
  • (transitive) To make over as a return.
  • (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
  • to give up; to yield; to surrender.
  • (transitive) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
  • (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
  • (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
  • (intransitive) To have fat drip off meat from cooking.
  • (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
  • (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
  • (nautical) To yield or give way.
  • (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
  • (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English renderen derived from Old French rendre (render, make, give back) derived from Latin *rendō, reddō (return in profit) root from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (give, spread out, lay out).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*deh₃-

Gloss

give, spread out, lay out

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