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render

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"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
shift

noun

  • An event in which something is displaced without rotation.
  • A qualitative change.
  • The time period during which you are at work.
  • The act of changing one thing or position for another.
    • usage: "his switch on abortion cost him the election"
  • The act of moving from one place to another.
    • usage: "his constant shifting disrupted the class"
  • Geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other. (
    • usage: "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
  • A crew of workers who work for a specific period of time.
  • The key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters.
  • A woman's sleeveless undergarment.
  • A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist.

verb

  • Make a shift in or exchange of.
    • usage: "First Joe led; then we switched"
  • Change place or direction.
    • usage: "Shift one's position"
  • Move around.
    • usage: "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket"
  • Move very slightly.
    • usage: "He shifted in his seat"
  • Move from one setting or context to another.
    • usage: "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention"
  • Change in quality.
    • usage: "His tone shifted"
  • Move and exchange for another.
    • usage: "shift the date for our class reunion"
  • Move sideways or in an unsteady way.
    • usage: "The ship careened out of control"
  • Move abruptly.
    • usage: "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"
  • Use a shift key on a keyboard.
    • usage: "She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case"
  • Change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change.
    • usage: "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted"
  • Change gears.
    • usage: "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill"
  • Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another.
    • usage: "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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