 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rendering
noun
1: a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role
etc.; "they heard a live rendition of three pieces by
Schubert" [syn: {rendition}]
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}]
3: the act of interpreting something as expressed in an
artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was
extraordinarily moving" [syn: {rendition}, {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}, {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
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Render \Ren"der\ (r?n"d?r), verb (used with an object) [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
{Date}time, 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rendering \Ren"der*ing\, noun
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "rendering":
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
rendering
The conversion of a high-level object-based
description into a graphical image for display.
For example, {ray-tracing} takes a mathematical model of a
three-dimensional object or scene and converts it into a
{bitmap} image. Another example is the process of converting
{HTML} into an image for display to the user.
(2001-02-06)
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