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Render and Process

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"

noun

  • A particular course of action intended to achieve a result.
    • usage: "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error"
  • Psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents. (
    • usage: "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
  • A writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant.
  • A mental process that you are not directly aware of.
    • usage: "the process of denial"
  • A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant.
    • usage: "a bony process"
  • A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states.
    • usage: "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"

verb

  • Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition.
    • usage: "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals"; "treat an oil spill"
  • Deal with in a routine way.
    • usage: "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"
  • Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information.
    • usage: "The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech"
  • Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against.
    • usage: "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
  • March in a procession.
    • usage: "They processed into the dining room"
  • Shape, form, or improve a material.
    • usage: "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
  • Deliver a warrant or summons to someone.
    • usage: "He was processed by the sheriff"