Render vs Diminish - What's the difference?
render | diminish |
To cause to become.
* , chapter=7
, 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 make smaller.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-14
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, date=2012-12-21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To become smaller.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Bible, Ezekiel xxix. 15
* Milton
To taper.
To disappear gradually.
To take away; to subtract.
* Bible, Deuteronomy iv. 2
(music) To reduce a perfect or minor interval by a semitone.
In transitive terms the difference between render and diminish
is that render is to convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct while diminish is to make smaller.As a noun render
is a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls.render
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* rendre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)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.}}
- 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
diminish
English
Verb
(es)We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys, passage=The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.}}
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
- This doth nothing diminish their opinion.
- I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
- O thou at whose sight all the stars / Hide their diminished heads.
- Neither shall ye diminish aught from it.