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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
render/ˈrendə(r)/
verb
  • 1 provide or give (a service, help, etc.).

    ■ submit for inspection, consideration, or payment.

    literary hand over; surrender.

  • 2 cause to be or become: the rains rendered his escape impossible.
  • 3 represent or depict artistically.

    ■ perform (a piece of music).

    ■ translate.

  • 4 melt down (fat) in order to clarify it.

    ■ process (the carcass of an animal) in order to extract proteins, fats, and other usable parts.

  • 5 cover (stone or brick) with a coat of plaster.
  • 6 Computing process (an image) in order to make it appear solid and three-dimensional.
noun a first coat of plaster applied to a brick or stone surface.
– derivatives
renderer noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. rendre, from an alt. of L. reddere ‘give back’.



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