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render | aid |

As a verb 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.

As a proper noun aid is

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render

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* rendre (archaic)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause to become.
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  • 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.
  • ----

    aid

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) aide, from (etyl) . Cognate include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Help; assistance; succor, relief.
  • :
  • *(Henry Hallam) (1777-1859)
  • *:An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid .
  • *
  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • A helper; an assistant.
  • *(w) viii. 6
  • *:It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.
  • Something which helps; a material source of help.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone
  • (lb) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
  • (lb) An exchequer loan.
  • (lb) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
  • An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
  • :
  • Derived terms
    * aid climbing * aidful * aidless * aidman * first aid * hearing aid

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) aidier (modern aider), from (etyl) adiuto'', frequentative of ''adiuvo "to assist".

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You speedy helpers Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
  • , date=May 24 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg. }}
    Synonyms
    * assist * befriend * bestand * cooperate * help * promote * relieve * succor * support * sustain
    Derived terms
    * aidable * aidance * aider

    Anagrams

    * ---- ==Võro==

    Noun

    (vro-noun)