Render vs Rather - What's the difference?
render | rather |
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.
(obsolete) More quickly; sooner, earlier.
Used to specify a choice or preference; preferably. (Now usually followed by than )
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(conjunctive) Used to introduce a contradiction; on the contrary.
(conjunctive) Introducing a qualification or clarification; more precisely. (Now usually preceded by or .)
* 1897 , (Henry James), (What Maisie Knew) :
* 1898, J. A. Hamilton, ", Volume LIV: Stanhope–Stovin , The MacMillan Company,
* , chapter=12
, title= (degree) Somewhat, fairly.
(nonstandard, or, dialectal) To prefer; to prefer to.
* 1984 , Bruce Brooks, The Moves Make the Man :
* 2002 , Sarah Waters, Fingersmith :
* 2002 , Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day :
* 2007 , Mikel Schaefer, Lost in Katrina , page 323:
(obsolete) Prior; earlier; former.
* Sir J. Mandeville
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between render and rather
is that render is (obsolete) an account given; a statement while rather is (obsolete) prior; earlier; former.As verbs the difference between render and rather
is that render is to cause to become while rather is (nonstandard|or|dialectal) to prefer; to prefer to.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 adverb rather is
(obsolete) more quickly; sooner, earlier.As an adjective rather is
(obsolete) prior; earlier; former.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
rather
English
Adverb
(-)- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
- What the pupil already knew was indeed rather taken for granted than expressed, but it performed the useful function of transcending all textbooks and supplanting all studies.
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- His ‘Iliad’ is spirited and polished, and, though often rather a paraphrase than a translation, is always more truly poetic than most of the best translations.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
Usage notes
* (somewhat) This is a non-descriptive qualifier'', similar to quite and fairly and somewhat. It is used where a plain adjective needs to be modified, but cannot be qualified. When spoken, the meaning can vary with the tone of voice and stress. "''He was rather big''" can mean anything from "not small" to "huge" (meiosis with the stress on ''rather ).Synonyms
* liever, liefer, as lief * (to a certain extent) somewhat, fairly, quiteAntonyms
* (somewhat) utterlyVerb
(en verb)- Until just before the pie was popped into the heat. A few of them suddenly realized who put that gorgeous hunk of crackers together, and gaped. We grinned back, but very cool. The ones who knew said nothing, rathering to die than let on they had been hustled by two negative dudes.
- It was a plain brown dress, more or less the colour of my hair; and the walls of our kitchen being also brown, when I came downstairs again I could hardly be seen. I should have rathered a blue gown, or a violet one
- So you must excuse my saying anything I did: all it was, that up to the very last I had understood us all to be friendly — apart, that is, from his rathering me not there. How was I to know he would flash out so wicked?
- "That was a killer," said Chris. "I'd rathered' die in St. Bernard than spent one minute over there. I would have ' rathered the storm, shaking with the wind and rain hitting in the boat for an eternity than spending any time there.
Adjective
(-)- Now no man dwelleth at the rather town.