different between render vs activate

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n.d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???n.d?/
• Hyphenation: ren?der
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English renderen, rendren, from Old French rendre (“to render, to make”), from Vulgar Latin *rend?, from Latin redd? (“return in profit”).

Alternative forms

• rendre (archaic)

Verb

render (third-person singular simple present renders, present participle rendering, simple past and past participle rendered)

1. (ditransitive) To cause to become.

2. (transitive) 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

3. (transitive) To translate into another language.

4. (transitive) To pass down.

5. (transitive) To make over as a return.

6. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard

     Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue.

7. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
8. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.

9. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
10. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.

11. (intransitive, cooking) To have fat drip off meat from cooking.

12. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.

13. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.

14. (nautical) To yield or give way.

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15. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
16. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
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      I will render vengeance to mine enemies.

Synonyms

• (cause to become): make
• (fat dripping): render off

Derived terms

• renderer, rendering
• render off
• render unto Caesar

Translations

Noun

render (countable and uncountable, plural renders)

1. (countable, uncountable) Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
2. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.

3. (obsolete) A surrender.
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4. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.

   • In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demesnes.

5. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.

Translations

Etymology 2

rend +? -er

Noun

render (plural renders)

1. One who rends.

Translations

Anagrams

• Derner, rendre

Danish

Noun

render c

1. indefinite plural of rende

Verb

render

1. present of rende

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese render (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin redd?re, present active infinitive of redd?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ren?de?]

Verb

render (first-person singular present rendo, first-person singular preterite rendín, past participle rendido)

1. (intransitive) to yield; to last
2. (transitive) to subdue, defeat
3. (transitive) to tire, wear out
4. (transitive) to render, pay (respects, homage)
5. (reflexive) to surrender

Conjugation

Derived terms

• renda
• rendemento

References

• “render” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “render” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “render” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “render” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “render” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

render m or f

1. indefinite plural of rand (Etymology 1)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

render f

1. indefinite plural of rand (Etymology 1)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin redd?re, present active infinitive of redd?.

Verb

render (first-person singular present indicative rendo, past participle rendido)

1. to render
2. to yield
3. to dominate, command
4. to subject

Conjugation

Derived terms

• rendimento

Related terms

• rendição

Further reading

• “render” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romansch

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin redd?re, present active infinitive of redd?.

Verb

render

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) to return, give back
2. to vomit, throw up, puke, be sick

Synonyms

• (to return, give back):
  • (Rumantsch Grischun) dar enavos, (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) dar anavos, (Puter) der inavous, (Vallader) dar inavo
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) restituir, (Surmiran) restitueir
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) returnar, (Puter) returner, (Vallader) retuornar

English

Etymology

active +? -ate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ækt??ve?t/

Verb

activate (third-person singular simple present activates, present participle activating, simple past and past participle activated)

1. (transitive) To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.

2. (transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.

3. (transitive, chemistry, physics) To render more reactive; excite.
4. (transitive, biology) To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
5. (transitive, physics) To render a substance radioactive.
6. (transitive, chemistry) To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
7. (transitive, computing, software) To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
8. (transitive) To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.
9. (transitive, military) To organize or create a military unit or station.

10. (transitive, sports) To bring a player back after an injury.

Synonyms

• actuate
• enable
• get going
• set going
• set in motion
• set off
• spur
• start
• stimulate
• trigger
• turn on

Related terms

• activation

Antonyms

• deactivate
• inactivate

Translations

Anagrams

• cavitate