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Noun: rendering  renduring
  1. A performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.
    - rendition
     
  2. An explanation of something that is not immediately obvious
    - interpretation, interpreting, rendition
     
  3. The act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance
    - rendition, interpretation
     
  4. A written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
    - 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
Verb: render  rendu(r)
  1. Cause to become
    "The shot rendered her immobile"
     
  2. Give something useful or necessary to
    - supply, provide, furnish
     
  3. Give an interpretation or rendition of
    "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"
    - interpret
     
  4. Give or supply
    "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
    - yield, return, give, generate
     
  5. Pass down
    "render a verdict"
    - deliver, return
     
  6. Make over as a return
    "They had to render the estate"
    - submit
     
  7. Give back
    "render money"
    - return
     
  8. To surrender someone or something to another
    "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"
    - hand over, fork over, fork out, fork up, turn in, deliver
     
  9. Show in, or as in, a picture
    "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
    - picture, depict, show
     
  10. Coat with plastic or cement
    "render the brick walls in the den"
     
  11. Bestow
    "render thanks"
    - give
     
  12. Restate (words) from one language into another language
    "She rendered the French poem into English"
    - translate, interpret
     
  13. Melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
    "render fat in a casserole"
    - try

Derived forms: renderings

Type of: coat, coating, communicate, create, defrayal, defrayment, do, drawing, execute, explanation, get, gift, give, hand, ingeminate, intercommunicate, interpret, iterate, make, melt, melt down, pass, pass along, pass on, payment, perform, performance, present, produce, public presentation, put across, reach, reiterate, repeat, represent, restate, retell, run, surface, turn over, written account, written record

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