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Render vs Renter - What's the difference?

render | renter |

As verbs the difference between render and renter

is that render is to cause to become while renter is to sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.

As nouns the difference between render and renter

is that render is a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls while renter is one who rents property from another.

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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    renter

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who rents property from another.
  • (legal) One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another.
  • Synonyms
    * (one who rents property from another) lessee, tenant, rentee * (one who rents property to another) lessor, landlord
    Usage notes
    Technically, in common legal usage, the term should refer only to the party who owns the property and allows another to rent it. The party paying for the use of the property is properly termed a rentee. However, common usage is to use the term to refer to the party paying for use of the property, and this usage has seeped into legal parlance as well.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) rentraire; (etyl) (lena) prefix (re-) re- + (in) into, in + (trahere) to draw.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
  • to restore the original design of (a tapestry) by working in new warp.
  • Anagrams

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