Render and Reverse

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"
  • synonyms: supply, provide, furnish
• Give an interpretation or rendition of.
  • usage: "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"
  • synonyms: interpret
• 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"
  • synonyms: yield, return, give, generate
• Pass down.
  • usage: "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
  • synonyms: deliver, return
• Make over as a return.
  • usage: "They had to render the estate"
  • synonyms: submit
• Give back.
  • usage: "render money"
  • synonyms: return
• 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"
  • synonyms: hand over, fork over, fork out, fork up, turn in, deliver
• 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"
  • synonyms: picture, depict, show
• Coat with plastic or cement.
  • usage: "render the brick walls in the den"
• Bestow.
  • usage: "give homage"; "render thanks"
  • synonyms: give
• 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."
  • synonyms: translate, interpret
• Melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities.
  • usage: "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole"
  • synonyms: try

• (v.t.) To give up; to yield; to surrender.
• (v.t.) Hence, to furnish; to contribute.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
• (n.) One who rends.
• (v.t.) To cause to be or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.
• (v.t.) To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.
• (v.i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way.
• (v.t.) To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.
• (n.) An account given; a statement.
• (v.i.) To give an account; to make explanation or confession.
• (v.t.) To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.
• (n.) A surrender.
• (n.) A return; a payment of rent.
• (v.t.) To return; to pay back; to restore.
• (v.t.) To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.

noun

• A relation of direct opposition.
  • usage: "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true"
  • synonyms: contrary, opposite
• The gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed.
  • synonyms: reverse gear
• An unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating.
  • synonyms: reversal, setback, blow, black eye
• The side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design.
  • synonyms: verso
• American football. ( a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction)
• Turning in the opposite direction.
  • synonyms: reversion, reversal, turnabout, turnaround

verb

• Change to the contrary.
  • usage: "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
  • synonyms: change by reversal, turn
• Turn inside out or upside down.
  • synonyms: turn back, invert
• Rule against.
  • usage: "The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill"
  • synonyms: overrule, overturn, override, overthrow
• Cancel officially.
  • usage: "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
  • synonyms: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate
• Reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of.
  • usage: "when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb"
  • synonyms: invert

adjective

• Directed or moving toward the rear.
  • usage: "a rearward glance"; "a rearward movement"
  • synonyms: rearward
• Of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle.
  • usage: "in reverse gear"
• Reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect.
  • synonyms: inverse

• (a.) Hence, to overthrow; to subvert.
• (a.) That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction.
• (a.) To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart.
• (a.) The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse.
• (a.) That which is directly opposite or contrary to something else; a contrary; an opposite.
• (a.) The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse.
• (a.) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence or decree.
• (a.) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
• (a.) Reversed; as, a reverse shell.
• (v.i.) To return; to revert.
• (a.) To turn upside down; to invert.
• (a.) To cause to return; to recall.
• (v.i.) To become or be reversed.
• (a.) A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
• (a.) Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
• (a.) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
• (a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.

reverse is an informal name for a reverse repurchase agreement.