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Commit and Render

verb

  • Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
    • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
    • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
    • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • Confer a trust upon.
    • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • Make an investment.
    • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • Engage in or perform.
    • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

  • A substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls.

verb

  • Cause to become.
    • usage: "The shot rendered her immobile"
  • Give something useful or necessary to.
    • usage: "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
  • Give an interpretation or rendition of.
    • usage: "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"
  • Give or supply.
    • usage: "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1, 000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
  • Pass down.
    • usage: "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
  • Make over as a return.
    • usage: "They had to render the estate"
  • Give back.
    • usage: "render money"
  • To surrender someone or something to another.
    • usage: "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money"
  • Show in, or as in, a picture.
    • usage: "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
  • Coat with plastic or cement.
    • usage: "render the brick walls in the den"
  • Bestow.
    • usage: "give homage"; "render thanks"
  • Restate (words) from one language into another language.
    • usage: "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U. S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U. N."
  • Melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities.
    • usage: "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole"