Definitions from The Online Plain Text English Dictionary:
Render
(n.) A return; a payment of rent.
(n.) A surrender.
(n.) An account given; a statement.
(n.) One who rends.
(v. i.) To give an account; to make explanation or confession.
(v. i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way.
(v. t.) Hence, to furnish; to contribute.
(v. t.) To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.
(v. t.) To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.
(v. t.) To give up; to yield; to surrender.
(v. t.) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
(v. t.) To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.
(v. t.) To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.
(v. t.) To return; to pay back; to restore.
(v. t.) To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.
(v. t.) To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.
OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)
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