Render vs Alter - What's the difference?
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To cause to become.
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, title= 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.
To translate into another language.
To pass down.
To make over as a return.
To give; to give back.
* I. Watts
to give up; to yield; to surrender.
* Shakespeare
(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.
(obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 41
A substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls.
(computer graphics) An image produced by rendering a model.
(obsolete) A surrender.
(obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
* Blackstone
(obsolete) An account given; a statement.
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
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 an adjective alter is
.render
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* rendre (archaic)Verb
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- we may, at last, render our philosophy like that of Epictetus
- to render Latin into English
- to render an account of what really happened
- Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue.
- I'll make her render up her page to me.
- (Totten)
- whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may
- I will render vengeance to mine enemies.
Synonyms
* (fat dripping) render offDerived terms
* (computer graphics) renderer, renderingNoun
(en noun)- A low-resolution render might look blocky.
- (Shakespeare)
- In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demesnes.
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
alter
English
Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)