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Render vs Represent - What's the difference?

render | represent |

As verbs the difference between render and represent

is that render is to cause to become while represent is to present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

As a noun render

is a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls or render can be one who rends.

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.
  • ----

    represent

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
  • To portray by pictorial or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like.
  • To portray by mimicry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet.
  • To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress.
  • To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe.
  • He represented that he was investigating for the police department.
  • To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things.
  • To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
  • To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).
  • (Webster 1913)

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