- to cause to be or become;make: to render someone helpless.
- to do; perform: to render a service.
- to furnish; provide: to render aid.
- to exhibit or show (obedience, attention, etc.).
- to present for consideration, approval, payment, action, etc., as an account.
- 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.
- to pay as due (a tax, tribute, etc.).
- to deliver formally or officially; hand down: to render a verdict.
- to translate into another language: to render French poems into English.
- to represent; depict, as in painting: to render a landscape.
- to represent (a perspective view of a projected building) in drawing or painting.
- to bring out the meaning of by performance or execution; interpret, as a part in a drama or a piece of music.
- Digital Technology.
- to use the processing power of computer hardware and software to synthesize (the components of an image or animation) in a final graphic output: I’m able to render the lighting in this scene much faster now, thanks to my new graphics card.
- to load (game assets) in a video game, displaying objects, textures, geometry, lighting, etc., on screen in their complete intended form: My laggy connection didn’t render the enemies until I was basically standing on top of them.The game is still playable even if the textures in the environment aren’t always rendered right.
- to give in return or requital: to render good for evil.
- to give back; restore (often followed by back).
- to send (a suspected criminal) abroad; subject to rendition.
- to give up; surrender.
- to cover (masonry) with a first coat of plaster.
- to melt down; extract the impurities from by melting: to render fat.
- to process, as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses.
- to provide due reward.
- to separate oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.
- (of assets in a video game) to load so they are visible to the player in their complete intended form: There is a long delay before the geometry renders when I change zones, so sometimes I find my character walking in place up against a wall when the world finally loads.
- a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.
- a person or thing that rends or tears something apart forcefully or violently.
- to present or submit (accounts, etc) for payment, approval, or action
- to give or provide (aid, charity, a service, etc)
- to show (obedience), as due or expected
- to give or exchange, as by way of return or requital
- to cause to become
- to deliver (a verdict or opinion) formally
- to portray or depict (something), as in painting, music, or acting
- to use colour and shading to make a digital image look three-dimensional and solid
- to translate (something) into another language or form
- to yield or give
- to return (something); give back
- to cover the surface of (brickwork, stone, etc) with a coat of plaster
- to extract (fat) from (meat) by melting
- nautical
- to reeve (a line)
- to slacken (a rope, etc)
- (of a feudal tenant) to make (payment) in money, goods, or services to one's overlord
- a first thin coat of plaster applied to a surface
- a payment in money, goods, or services made by a feudal tenant to his lord