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Installment vs Render - What's the difference?

installment | render |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between installment and render

is that installment is (obsolete) the seat in which one is placed while render is (obsolete) an account given; a statement.

As nouns the difference between installment and render

is that installment is the act of installing; installation or installment can be a portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal namely regular, eg mensual) being often definitely stipulated while render is a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls or render can be one who rends.

As a verb render is

to cause to become.

installment

English

Alternative forms

* instalment (Commonwealth)

Etymology 1

From install, itself from (etyl) installer, from installare, from (etyl) in- + ML stallum 'stall' (from Germanic stal, see below)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of installing; installation.
    • Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment , to do impartial justice by law. Milton.
  • (obsolete) The seat in which one is placed.
    • The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment , coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. Shakespeare.
    Synonyms
    * investiture, investment * installation

    Etymology 2

    A 1732 alteration of (estallment), from (etyl) : The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal namely regular, e.g. mensual) being often definitely stipulated.
  • a part of a broadcast or published serial.
  • anything that is performed in parts, spread in time
    • Usage notes
    For this sense in the UK, the OED permits only the spelling instalment . Commonwealth usage varies.
    Synonyms
    * (portion of a debt) * (part of a broadcast or published serial) episode, part

    References

    * * * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=installment+&searchmode=none]

    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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