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Explain is a related term of render.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between explain and render

is that explain is (obsolete) to unfold or make visible while render is (obsolete) an account given; a statement.

As verbs the difference between explain and render

is that explain is to make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of while render is to cause to become.

As a noun render is

a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls or render can be one who rends.

explain

English

(Explanation)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
  • *
    • The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=, volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
  • (obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
  • * (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
    • The horse-chestnut isready to explain its leaf.

    Synonyms

    * (give a sufficiently detailed report) expound, elaborate

    Related terms

    * explanation * explain away * explanatory

    External links

    * * English reporting verbs 1000 English basic words

    render

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * rendre (archaic)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to become.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
  • To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
    • we may, at last, render our philosophy like that of Epictetus
  • To translate into another language.
    • to render Latin into English
  • To pass down.
  • To make over as a return.
  • To give; to give back.
    • to render an account of what really happened
  • * I. Watts
    • Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue.
  • to give up; to yield; to surrender.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll make her render up her page to me.
  • (computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
  • To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
  • To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
  • (cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
  • (construction) To cover a wall with a film of cement or plaster.
  • (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
  • (nautical) To yield or give way.
    • (Totten)
  • (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
  • * Spenser
    • whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may
  • (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 41
    • I will render vengeance to mine enemies.
    Synonyms
    * (fat dripping) render off
    Derived terms
    * (computer graphics) renderer, rendering

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls.
  • (computer graphics) An image produced by rendering a model.
    • A low-resolution render might look blocky.
  • (obsolete) A surrender.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
  • * Blackstone
    • In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demesnes.
  • (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who rends.
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