Meaning & use
render
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To cause something to be in a particular state, to provide or give something formally, or to reproduce or depict something, as in art, translation, or computer graphics.
See it in a sentence
The accident rendered the car undrivable.
The software takes about ten minutes to render the final animation in high resolution.
A note on using this word
A highly versatile verb: it can mean 'to cause to become' (render harmless), 'to give formally' (render a verdict), or 'to generate an image' (render a 3D model).
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To generate a visual image from a model or description, especially by computer.
The animator let the scene render overnight on the studio's computers.
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