Rendering

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Render \Ren"der\ (r?n"d?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rendered}
     (-d?rd);p. pr. & vb. n. {Rendering}.] [F. rendre, LL. rendre,
     fr. L. reddere; pref. red-, re-, re- + dare to give. See
     {Date}time, and cf. {Reddition}, {Rent}.]
     1. To return; to pay back; to restore.
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              Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
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              I will render vengeance to mine enemies. --Deut.
                                                    xxxii. 41.
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     3. To give up; to yield; to surrender.
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              I 'll make her render up her page to me. --Shak.
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     4. Hence, to furnish; to contribute.
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              Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and
              virtue.                               --I. Watts.
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     5. To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an
        account; to render judgment.
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     6. To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more
        safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.
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     7. To translate from one language into another; as, to render
        Latin into English.
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     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.
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              He did render him the most unnatural
              That lived amongst men.               --Shak.
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     9. To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty
        animal substances; as, to render tallow.
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     10. To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of
         lath.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rendering \Ren"der*ing\, n.
     The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered.
     Specifically:
     (a) A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew
         text. --Lowth.
     (b) In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation
         of an idea, theme, or part.
     (c) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork
         or stonework.
     (d) The coat of plaster thus laid on. --Gwilt.
     (e) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow,
         etc., from animal fat.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rendering
       n 1: a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role
            etc.; "they heard a live rendition of three pieces by
            Schubert" [syn: {rendition}]
       2: an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious;
          "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he
          annoyed us with his interpreting of parables"; "often
          imitations are extended to provide a more accurate
          rendition of the child's intended meaning" [syn: {interpretation},
           {interpreting}, {rendition}]
       3: the act of interpreting something as expressed in an
          artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was
          extraordinarily moving" [syn: {rendition}, {interpretation}]
       4: a written communication in a second language having the same
          meaning as the written communication in a first language
          [syn: {translation}, {interlingual rendition}, {version}]
       5: a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall
       6: perspective drawing of an architect's design
       7: giving in acknowledgment of obligation

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  120 Moby Thesaurus words for "rendering":
     alphabet, art, blueprint, cameo, cantando, catalog, cataloging,
     character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart,
     choreography, composite reading, concentration, conception,
     conflation, conventional representation, critical edition,
     dance notation, decoction, delineation, demilegato, demonstration,
     depiction, depictment, description, details, diagram,
     diplomatic text, distillation, drama, drawing, edited text,
     edition, evocation, execution, exemplification, expression,
     figuration, fingering, glissando, graphic account, hieroglyphic,
     iconography, ideogram, illustration, image, imagery, imaging,
     impression, infusion, interpretation, intonation, itemization,
     lection, legato, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map,
     mezzo staccato, music-making, musical notation, normalized text,
     notation, paraphrase, parlando, particularization, performance,
     photograph, pianism, pictogram, picture, picturization, pizzicato,
     plan, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement,
     presentation, presentment, pressing, printing, profile, projection,
     reading, realization, rendition, repercussion, representation,
     restatement, rubato, schema, scholarly edition, score, script,
     showing, sketch, slur, soaking, specification, spiccato, squeezing,
     staccato, steeping, syllabary, symbol, tablature, text, touch,
     translation, variant, version, vignette, vivid description,
     word painting, writing
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  rendering
       
           The conversion of a high-level object-based
          description into a graphical image for display.
       
          For example, {ray-tracing} takes a mathematical model of a
          three-dimensional object or scene and converts it into a
          {bitmap} image.  Another example is the process of converting
          {HTML} into an image for display to the user.
       
          (2001-02-06)