• (RP) IPA: /ˈɹɛn.də/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɹɛn.dɚ/

From Middle English renderen, rendren, from Old French rendre, from Late Latin rendō, from Latin reddō.

render (renders, present participle rendering; simple past and past participle rendered)

1. (ditransitive) To cause to become.

   The shot rendered her immobile.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:

     […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

2. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.

   The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully.

   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 34:

     we may, at last, render our philosophy like that of Epictetus

3. (transitive) To translate into another language.

   to render Latin into English

4. (transitive) To pass down.

   render a verdict (i.e., deliver a judgment)

5. (transitive) To make over as a return.

   They had to render the estate.

6. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.

   render aid; render money

   to render an account of what really happened

   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC ↗:

     Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue.

7. (transitive, dated) To give up; to yield; to surrender.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene i]:

     I'll make her render up her page to me.

8. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.

   rendering images

9. (transitive, art, by extension) To apply realistic coloring and shading.
10. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
11. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.

    rendering of fat into soap

12. (intransitive, cooking) To have fat drip off meat from cooking.

    Bacon is very fatty when raw; however, most of the fat will render during cooking.

13. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.

    to render with stucco

14. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.

    A rope renders well, that is, passes freely.

15. (nautical) To yield or give way.
16. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 14:

      whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may

17. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Deuteronomy 32:41 ↗:

      I will render vengeance to mine enemies.

• (cause to become) make
• (fat dripping) render off

• French: rendre
• German: zu etwas führen, machen
• Italian: rendere
• Portuguese: tornar
• Russian: вызвать
• Spanish: volver

• French: interpréter
• German: interpretieren, wiedergeben, aufführen, vortragen
• Italian: interpretare
• Portuguese: interpretar
• Spanish: interpretar

• French: traduire
• German: übersetzen
• Italian: tradurre
• Portuguese: traduzir
• Spanish: traducir, trasladar

• German: verkünden, fällen
• Italian: passare
• Spanish: pasar

• German: übergeben, wiedergeben, zurückgeben
• Italian: rendere, restituire, ritornare

• German: geben, zurückgeben, leisten, übergeben, erbringen, erweisen
• Italian: dare, ridare
• Spanish: dar, devolver

• French: rendu
• German: rendern, ausgeben, synthetisieren, wiedergeben, erzeugen, simulieren, berechnen
• Italian: renderizzare
• Portuguese: renderizar
• Spanish: representar gráficamente, renderizar

• German: entführen
• Italian: restituire
• Portuguese: interpretar
• Spanish: entregar

• German: auslassen, ausschmelzen, umsetzen
• Italian: trasformare
• Spanish: licuar, infundir

• French: plâtrer
• German: verputzen, putzen
• Italian: ricoprire
• Russian: штукату́рить
• Spanish: enyesar, revocar

• German: durchlaufen
• Italian: passare

• German: Vorfahrt achten, durchlassen

render

1. (countable, uncountable) Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
2. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.

   A low-resolution render might look blocky.

3. (obsolete) A surrender.
4. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC ↗:

     In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demesnes.

5. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene i]:

     And send forth us , to make their sorrow'd render,
     Together with a recompense more fruitful
     Than their offence can weigh down by the dram

• German: Wandputz
• Russian: штукату́рка

• German: Bildsynthese, Modellierung, Simulation, Darstellung, Wiedergabe
• Portuguese: render, imagem renderizada

render (plural renders)

1. One who rends.

1. Surname.