Afford vs Render - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between afford and render

is that afford is to incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc; to be able or rich enough 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.

afford

English

Alternative forms

* afoord, affoord, affoard, affowrd (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)

To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;—with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough.

*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”

To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury.

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.

To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.

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Usage notes

* Sense 1. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

Derived terms

* affordable * affordance * offer affordances

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.

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