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Spacewater Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Very confusing word here

Render

–verb (used with object)
1.to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.
2.to do; perform: to render a service.
3.to furnish; provide: to render aid.
4.to exhibit or show (obedience, attention, etc.).
5.to present for consideration, approval, payment, action, etc., as an account.
6.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.
7.to pay as due (a tax, tribute, etc.).
8.to deliver formally or officially; hand down: to render a verdict.
9.to translate into another language: to render French poems into English.
10.to represent; depict, as in painting: to render a landscape.
11.to represent (a perspective view of a projected building) in drawing or painting.
12.to bring out the meaning of by performance or execution; interpret, as a part in a drama or a piece of music.
13.to give in return or requital: to render good for evil.
14.to give back; restore (often fol. by back).
15.to give up; surrender.
16.Building Trades. to cover (masonry) with a first coat of plaster.
17.to melt down; extract the impurities from by melting: to render fat.
18.to process, as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses.


–verb (used without object)
19.to provide due reward.
20.to try out oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.


–noun
21.
Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.

So which definition is the most commonly used in everyday volcabuary?
  

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render is not a frequently used word to begin with. I don't think I've heard it more than twice in the past year. I'd say that on the less usual occasions where I hear the word, the meaning is just about as likely to be one as another of all those definitions.

— CalifJim

  • render is not a frequently used word to begin with.
  • I don't think I've heard it more than twice in the past year.
  • I'd say that on the less usual occasions where I hear the word, the meaning is just about as likely to be one as another of all those definitions.
  • There is no particular meaning that is most common in my opinion.
  • CJ
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render is not a frequently used word to begin with. I don't think I've heard it more than twice in the past year. I'd say that on the less usual occasions where I hear the word, the meaning is just about as likely to be one as another of all those definitions. There is no particular meaning that is most common in my opinion.

CJ
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