Rendering
['rend(ə)rɪŋ] or ['rɛndərɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) giving in acknowledgment of obligation.
(noun.) perspective drawing of an architect's design.
(noun.) a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Render
(n.) The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered.
(n.) A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text.
(n.) In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part.
(n.) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework.
(n.) The coat of plaster thus laid on.
(n.) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat.
Editor: Ozzie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Translation, version, construction, interpretation.
Editor: Mervin
Examples
- There are reasons now known to me, reasons in which you have no part, rendering it far better for you that you should not remain here. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was very pretty to look at, but seemed to have the effect of rendering surrounding objects rather darker than before. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He made experiments, and at last succeeded in rendering the copper negatively electrical by the use of small pieces of tin, zinc, or iron nails. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There was a means, too, of rendering her delightful, by inducing her to take her guitar and sing and play. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Seeing in this arrangement the hope of rendering real service in that pressing emergency, Miss Pross hailed it with joy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In the rendering of those little services, and in the manner of their acceptance, the trooper has become installed as necessary to him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Thinking is thus equivalent to an explicit rendering of the intelligent element in our experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- After rendering this general tribute to the port, Mr. Snagsby in his modesty coughs an apology behind his hand for drinking anything so precious. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- At any moment, however, the barrier might fall, and Justinian lost no time in rendering the guns innocuous, if he were forced to retreat up the gorge. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He floundered in his conversation with the ladies, his neighbours: George's coolness only rendering him more angry. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Olly, though without the tact to perceive when remarks were untimely, was saved by her very simplicity from rendering them offensive. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Two of the strongest of our gunboats had been disabled, presumably beyond the possibility of rendering any present assistance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Chubb, in 1835, patented a process of rendering wooden safes burglar proof by lining them with steel, or case-hardened iron plate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And could you not take the same means of rendering a Conversation unnecessary? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Compliance, by rendering our strength useless, makes us insensible of it: but opposition awakens and employs it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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