Imagine vs Render - What's the difference?
imagine | render |
To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
* Shakespeare
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, title= To believe in something created by one's own mind.
To assume.
To conjecture or guess.
To use one's imagination.
(obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
* Bible, Psalms lxii. 3
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.
As verbs the difference between imagine and render
is that imagine is 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.imagine
English
Verb
- In the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined . Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
- How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* imaginable * imaginal * imaginary * imagination * imaginativerender
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)