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render | American Dictionary

render
verb[ T ]
us/ˈren·dər/

renderverb[T] (CAUSE)

to cause someone or something to be in a particular state:
New technology renders a computer obsolete in a year.

renderverb[T] (REPRESENT)

to represent something in a work of art or a performance:
The drawing was rendered in muted pastels.

renderverb[T] (GIVE)

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to give something to someone:
An employee is someone who renders his or her services in exchange for pay.

render | Business English

render
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈrendər/us
to cause something or someone to be in a particular state:
Regulation should be shifted from the sales process to the products themselves, effectively rendering financial advisors surplus to requirements.
Billions have been spent, but not one gallon of the estimated 54m gallons of waste has been rendered harmless.
formal
to provide or give something such as help or a service to people:
render aid/assistance/help
They liaise between companies that want to buy insurance and the insurers that sell it, taking a commission for services rendered.
ACCOUNTING, FINANCE, TAX
to officially prepare financial records, bills, etc. and give them to someone or make them available:
The company had failed to render accounts to its shareholders two years in a row.
We shall render invoices to you monthly in respect of work done by the firm.
Thousands evade tax by not rendering returns.
to officially announce a decision or judgment about something:
render a decision/verdictThe Council is expected to render a decision soon.
render judgmentThe court's duty is to hear a matter and render judgment or direction.
IT
to make an image on a computer screen appear solid and like a real object:
The software greatly accelerates the production of high-quality rendered images of products.

Examples of render

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It is equally true, however, that the party's narrow class base rendered it an increasingly less than reliable champion of democratic rights.
The reason we apply a uniform random number for rendering fractal is that it can create unique and more diverse forms.
This is because vowels in both primarily and secondarily stressed syllables are rendered strong and not weakened.
This latter approach is favoured in semantical investigations as it renders no proof-theoretical problems when forming term models.
Vision is a mode of de-distancing that brings things that are not at hand nearer from their remoteness, and renders beings accessible even from afar.
A good theory must have sufficient intellectual content to render it falsifiable.
Positive feedback over time simultaneously increases power asymmetries and renders them less visible.
Virtual visiting was rendered even more appealing by the difficulties of travel.
The voices adopt the rhythm given by the percussion section, and sentences are rendered mechanical by being broken into short pieces.
To render these by precise geometrical modelling, and optically exact rendering, is wrongheaded.
As we shall see shortly, it is the egalitarian relational claim that renders egalitarianism vulnerable to the levelling down objection.
Their strong morphological identity endows them with a very differentiated character rendering them most distinct and recognisable.
The possibility to render the elastic vibrations as small as desired is proved analytically for a gantry crane with a payload.
For artists in other provincial troupes, social hostility rendered it largely impossible for them to exert any influence over their employers.
Its characters are warmly infused with life and defined by their social context, in an expatriate unhappiness that is fully rendered and recognizable.
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