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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REN'DERING, ppr. Returning; giving back; assigning; making; translating; surrendering; affording.
REN'DERING, n. Version; translation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, rendering]
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, rendering]
3: the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving" [syn: rendition, rendering, 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, rendering, 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

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a the act or an instance of performing music, drama, etc.; an interpretation or performance (an excellent rendering of the part). b a translation. 2 a the act or an instance of plastering stone, brick, etc. b this coating. 3 the act or an instance of giving, yielding, or surrendering.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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 Datetime, and cf. Reddition, Rent.] 1. To return; to pay back; to restore. Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may. --Spenser. 2. To inflict, as a retribution; to requite. I will render vengeance to mine enemies. --Deut. xxxii. 41. 3. To give up; to yield; to surrender. I 'll make her render up her page to me. --Shak. 4. Hence, to furnish; to contribute. Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue. --I. Watts. 5. To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment. 6. To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure. 7. To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English. 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. He did render him the most unnatural That lived amongst men. --Shak. 9. To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow. 10. To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(renderings) 1. A rendering of a play, poem, or piece of music is a performance of it. ...a rendering of Verdi's Requiem by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. = performance N-COUNT: usu N of n 2. A rendering of an expression or piece of writing or speech is a translation of it. This phrase may well have been a rendering of a popular Arabic expression. N-COUNT: usu N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Translation, version, construction, interpretation, rendition. 2. Interpretation, delineation, reproduction, representation, exhibition.

Moby Thesaurus

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