What does "render" mean?
Render: To return; to pay back; to restore. Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may. Spenser.
Additional senses
- 2.To inflict, as a retribution; to requite. I will render vengeance to mine enemies. Deut. xxxii.
- 3.3. To give up; to yield; to surrender. I 'll make her render up her page to me. Shak.
- 4.Hence, to furnish; to contribute. Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue. I. Watts.
- 5.To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.
- 6.To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.
- 7.To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.
- 8.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. He did render him the most unnatural That lived amongst men. Shak.
- 9.To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.
- 10.To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.
- 11.To give an account; to make explanation or confession. [Obs.]
- 12.(Naut.) 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. Totten.
- 13.A surrender. [Obs.] Shak.
- 14.A return; a payment of rent. In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demains. Blackstone.
- 15.An account given; a statement. [Obs.] Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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