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—renderable, adj. —renderer, n./ren"deuhr/, v.t.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.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.v.i.19. to provide due reward.20. to try out oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.n.21. Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.[1275-1325; ME rendren < MF rendre < VL *rendere, alter. (formed by analogy with prendere to take) of L reddere to give back, equiv. to red- RED- + -dere, comb. form of dare to give]render2/ren"deuhr/, n.a person or thing that rends.[1580-90; REND + -ER1]
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