<B>render, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cause to become; make. <BR> <I>Ex. An accident has rendered him helpless. Fright rendered me speechless.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to give; do. <BR> <I>Ex. to render judgment. Can you render any aid? What service has he rendered to the school?</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to offer for consideration, approval, payment, or fulfillment; hand in; report. <BR> <I>Ex. to render a bill. The treasurer rendered an account of all the money spent.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to give in return. <BR> <I>Ex. Render thanks for your blessings.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to pay as due. <BR> <I>Ex. The conquered rendered tribute to the conqueror.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to bring out the meaning of; represent. <BR> <I>Ex. The actor rendered the part of the villain well.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>to play or sing (music). <BR> <I>Ex. to render an old English ballad.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>to change from one language to another; translate. <BR> <I>Ex. Render that Latin proverb into English.</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>to give up; surrender. <BR> <I>Ex. The knights rendered their swords to the victors.</I> <DD><B> 10. </B>to melt (fat or other animal or vegetable matter); clarify or extract by melting. Fat from hogs is rendered for lard. <DD><B> 11. </B>to cover (bricks, stone, or lath) with a first coat of plaster. <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Obsolete.) to make return or recompense. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a first coat of plaster. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Law.) a return; payment in money, kind, or service made by a tenant to his superior. noun <B>renderer.</B> </DL>
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<B>renderable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be rendered. </DL>
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<B>rendering, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the act of yielding, giving, offering, or paying. <BR> <I>Ex. Love itself is, in its highest state, the rendering of an exquisite praise to body and soul (John Ruskin).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>that which is rendered or given. <BR> <I>Ex. Alas! our renderings are nothing ...; we are like the barren field(Philip Henry).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>translation; interpretation. <BR> <I>Ex. Correct rendering is very often conspicuously absent from our authorized version of the Old Testament (Matthew Arnold).</I> <DD><B> 3a. </B>reproduction; representation. <BR> <I>Ex. The painter has shown himself extremely skilful in his rendering of curious effects of light (London Times).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>performance. <BR> <I>Ex. The Opera Society had given an excellent rendering of "Patience" in the Founders' Hall (Graham Greene).</I> </DL>
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<B>rendezvous, </B>noun, pl. <B>-vous,</B> verb, <B>-voused,</B> <B>-vousing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an appointment or engagement to meet at a fixed place or time; meeting by agreement. <BR> <I>Ex. Each tribe had usually some fixed place of rendezvous (Scott). (Figurative.) This country has a rendezvous with destiny (Franklin D. Roosevelt).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a meeting place; gathering place. <BR> <I>Ex. The family had two favorite rendezvous, the living room and the lawn behind the house.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a place agreed on for a meeting at a certain time, especially of troops or ships. <DD><B> 4. </B>a meeting at a fixed place or time. <BR> <I>Ex. the rendezvous of a lunar module and the command ship.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to meet at a rendezvous. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (U.S.) to bring together (as troops, ships, or space capsules) at a fixed place. </DL>
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<B>rendition, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of rendering. <BR> <I>Ex. Not the newspaper articles which were a sensationalized rendition of his tour (Saturday Review).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the rendering of a dramatic part or music, to bring out the meaning. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=translation.</B> <DD><B> 4. </B>the surrender of a place, person, position, or possession. </DL>
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<B>rendrock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an explosive mixture used chiefly in blasting, containing nitroglycerin, kieselguhr, and wood pulp. </DL>
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<B>renegade, </B>noun, adjective, verb, <B>-gaded,</B> <B>-gading.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a deserter, such as from a religious faith or a political party; traitor; one who abandons his principles or his people. (SYN) apostate, recreant, backslider. <DD><I>adj. </I> like a traitor; deserting; disloyal; apostate. <BR> <I>Ex. But he is not, like Joyce, a bitterly renegade Catholic (The Reporter).</I> (SYN) traitorous. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to turn renegade. </DL>
<B>renege, </B>verb, <B>-neged,</B> <B>-neging,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to fail to play a card of the same suit as that first played, although one is able to do so; revoke. It is against the rules of cards to renege. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) to back out; fail to follow up. <BR> <I>Ex. to renege on a promise or responsibility.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Archaic.) to deny; renounce. <DD><I>noun </I> a failure to follow suit in cardplaying when able to do so; revoke. noun <B>reneger.</B> </DL>
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<B>renegotiable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be renegotiated. </DL>
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<B>renegotiate, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to negotiate again or anew, especially a contract, to eliminate excessive profits. </DL>
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<B>renegotiation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of renegotiating or condition of being renegotiated. <BR> <I>Ex. Far from encouraging is the threat of renegotiation of profits on Government contracts (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>renerve, </B>transitive verb, <B>-nerved,</B> <B>-nerving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to restore vigor or courage to. </DL>
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<B>renew, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make new again; make like new; restore. <BR> <I>Ex. Rain renews the greenness of the field.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make spiritually new. <BR> <I>Ex. Grant that we ... may daily be renewed by thy holy spirit (Book of Common Prayer).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to begin again; get again; say, do, or give again. <BR> <I>Ex. to renew one's vows. He renewed his efforts to open the window.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to replace by new material or a new thing of the same sort; fill again. <BR> <I>Ex. She renewed the sleeves of her dress.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to give or get for a new period. <BR> <I>Ex. We renewed our lease for another year.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to renew a lease, note, or other obligation or agreement. <DD><B> 2. </B>to begin again. <DD><B> 3. </B>to become new again. noun <B>renewer.</B> </DL>
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<B>renewability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being renewable. </DL>
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<B>renewable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be renewed. <BR> <I>Ex. a renewable contract, renewable sources of energy.</I> </DL>
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<B>renewably, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> so as to be renewable. </DL>
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<B>renewal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of renewing or fact of being renewed. <BR> <I>Ex. In summer there will be a renewal of interest in swimming.</I> </DL>
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<B>renewedly, </B>adverb. <B>=anew.</B></DL>
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<B>R. Eng.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Royal Engineers. </DL>
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<B>reniform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> kidney-shaped. <BR> <I>Ex. a reniform leaf, a reniform shell.</I> </DL>
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<B>renin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a protein enzyme in the kidney that raises blood pressure when injected into the bloodstream. <BR> <I>Ex. Page made important discoveries on the workings of renin, an enzyme secreted by the kidney when it is starved of blood (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>renipuncture, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> surgical puncture of the capsule of the kidney, for relief of pain. </DL>
<B>rennet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>substance containing rennin, obtained from the stomach of a calf or other ruminant, used for curdling milk in making cheese and junket. <BR> <I>Ex. The milk proteins are clotted, either by the action of lactic acid produced by bacteria growing in the milk, or by the addition of rennet (Science News).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a mass of curdled milk found in the fourth stomach of a calf or other ruminant. </DL>
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<B>rennet pepsin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> pepsin from a calf's stomach. </DL>
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<B>rennet stomach,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the abomasum of a ruminant. </DL>
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<B>rennin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an enzyme in the gastric juice that coagulates or curdles milk. It occurs in young infants, in calves, and also in certain lower animals and plants. </DL>
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<B>renography, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of the kidneys by means of radiography. </DL>
<B>renormalizable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) capable of renormalization. noun <B>renormalizability.</B> </DL>
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<B>renormalization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) the systematic replacement of infinities with experimentally observed values, used as a method of eliminating obstacles to theoretical formulations. <BR> <I>Ex. According to Einstein's famous energy-mass formula, the electron would then have an infinite mass, rendering it incapable of motion. To get around this problem, Feynman invented a rule called renormalization that enables the theorist to ignore these infinities (Robert H. March).</I> </DL>
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<B>renormalize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) to correct or adjust by the process of renormalization. </DL>
