All 42 Uses of
render
in
Bleak House
- They agreed in nothing but their perfect neatness, their display of the whitest linen, and their storing-up, wheresoever the existence of a drawer, small or large, rendered it possible, of quantities of rose-leaves and sweet lavender.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2)
- Mr. Skimpole's general position there would have rendered it so without the addition of what he presently said.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2)
- But they are my companions everywhere; and by these means they acquire that knowledge of the poor, and that capacity of doing charitable business in general—in short, that taste for the sort of thing—which will render them in after life a service to their neighbours and a satisfaction to themselves.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)
- For these reasons I thought it best to be as useful as I could, and to render what kind services I could to those immediately about me, and to try to let that circle of duty gradually and naturally expand itself.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)
- My Lady's maid is a Frenchwoman of two and thirty, from somewhere in the southern country about Avignon and Marseilles, a large-eyed brown woman with black hair who would be handsome but for a certain feline mouth and general uncomfortable tightness of face, rendering the jaws too eager and the skull too prominent.†
Chpt 10-12
- By all that is base and despicable," cried Mr. Boythorn, "the treatment of surgeons aboard ship is such that I would submit the legs—both legs—of every member of the Admiralty Board to a compound fracture and render it a transportable offence in any qualified practitioner to set them if the system were not wholly changed in eight and forty hours!"†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2)
- We have only, in the second place, to observe those little formalities which are rendered necessary by our time of life and our being under the guardianship of the court.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2)
- All the love and duty I could ever have rendered to him is transferred to you.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2)
- I was sitting at the window with my guardian on the following morning, and Ada was busy writing—of course to Richard—when Miss Jellyby was announced, and entered, leading the identical Peepy, whom she had made some endeavours to render presentable by wiping the dirt into corners of his face and hands and making his hair very wet and then violently frizzling it with her fingers.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2)
- "The airs the fellow gives himself!" said my informant, shaking her head at old Mr. Turveydrop with speechless indignation as he drew on his tight gloves, of course unconscious of the homage she was rendering.†
Chpt 13-15
- I may render the same tribute, I am sure, to Mr. Carstone.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- "Nine years, my dear," he said after thinking for a little while, "have passed since I received a letter from a lady living in seclusion, written with a stern passion and power that rendered it unlike all other letters I have ever read.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- The windows, heavily shaded by trees, admitted a subdued light that made the faces around me pale, and darkened the old brasses in the pavement and the time and damp-worn monuments, and rendered the sunshine in the little porch, where a monotonous ringer was working at the bell, inestimably bright.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- I am sorry that any local disputes of Sir Leicester's—they are not of his seeking, however, I believe—should render it a matter of some absurd difficulty to show you any attention here."†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- Mr. Chadband is attached to no particular denomination and is considered by his persecutors to have nothing so very remarkable to say on the greatest of subjects as to render his volunteering, on his own account, at all incumbent on his conscience; but he has his followers, and Mrs. Snagsby is of the number.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 2)
- They then report progress to the eminent Smallweed, waiting at the office in his tall hat for that purpose, and separate, Mr. Guppy explaining that he would terminate his little entertainment by standing treat at the play but that there are chords in the human mind which would render it a hollow mockery.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 2)
- After rendering this general tribute to the port, Mr. Snagsby in his modesty coughs an apology behind his hand for drinking anything so precious.†
Chpt 22-24
- We found him engaged with a not very hopeful pupil—a stubborn little girl with a sulky forehead, a deep voice, and an inanimate, dissatisfied mama—whose case was certainly not rendered more hopeful by the confusion into which we threw her preceptor.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 2)
- I had seen Mr. Guppy bringing in papers and arranging them for Mr. Kenge; and he had seen me and made me a forlorn bow, which rendered me desirous to get out of the court.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 2)
- You served under Captain Hawdon at one time, and were his attendant in illness, and rendered him many little services, and were rather in his confidence, I am told.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)
- And could you not take the same means of rendering a Conversation unnecessary?†
Chpt 28-30 *
- The old girl never appears in walking trim, in any season of the year, without a grey cloth cloak, coarse and much worn but very clean, which is, undoubtedly, the identical garment rendered so interesting to Mr. Bagnet by having made its way home to Europe from another quarter of the globe in company with Mrs. Bagnet and an umbrella.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- Though his services were rendered quite gratuitously.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- I was rendered motionless.
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1) *rendered = made (caused to become)
- ...and no human creature could render her any aid.
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2) *render = give
- It is true I have no longer to maintain a dear grandmother who died in her hundred and second year, but enough remains to render it indispensable that the mill should be always going.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 2)
- Mr. Tulkinghorn with his usual leisurely ease advances, renders his passing homage to my Lady, shakes Sir Leicester's hand, and subsides into the chair proper to him when he has anything to communicate, on the opposite side of the Baronet's little newspaper-table.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 1)
- I must take all this into account, and it combines to render a decision very difficult.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 2)
- Whether he was a better tenant than one might have supposed, in consequence of his friend Somebody always paying his rent at last, or whether his inaptitude for business rendered it particularly difficult to turn him out, I don't know; but he had occupied the same house some years.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- And if the time should come when I can stretch out a hand to render the least service to one whom it is better not to name even here, I will not fail to do it for her dear daughter's sake."†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- There are reasons now known to me, reasons in which you have no part, rendering it far better for you that you should not remain here.†
Chpt 46-48
- In our condition of life, we sometimes couple an intention with our—our fancies which renders them not altogether easy to throw off.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
- Mr. Bagnet merely distinguishes that epoch in the musical instrument business by kissing the children with an extra smack before breakfast, smoking an additional pipe after dinner, and wondering towards evening what his poor old mother is thinking about it—a subject of infinite speculation, and rendered so by his mother having departed this life twenty years.†
Chpt 49-51 (definition 2)
- That I'll do, and render an account of course.†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 2)
- In the rendering of those little services, and in the manner of their acceptance, the trooper has become installed as necessary to him.†
Chpt 58-60
- The periodical visits of the trooper to these rooms, however, in the course of his patrolling is an assurance of protection and company both to mistress and maid, which renders them very acceptable in the small hours of the night.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 1)
- The assistance that she rendered me, she rendered on my strongest assurance that it was for the dear one's good.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 2)
- The assistance that she rendered me, she rendered on my strongest assurance that it was for the dear one's good.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 2)
- I have no doubt that his desire to retrieve what he had lost was rendered the more intense by his grief for his young wife, and became like the madness of a gamester.†
Chpt 61-63 (definition 2)
- With such help from Mr. Jarndyce as you who know him so well can imagine him to have rendered me, I have succeeded.†
Chpt 61-63 (definition 2)
- I think it would be impossible to make an admission with more ill will and a worse grace than Mr. Smallweed displayed when he admitted this, rendering it perfectly evident that Mr. Bucket was the very last person he would have thought of taking into his confidence if he could by any possibility have kept him out of it.†
Chpt 61-63
- "My friend Jobling will render me his assistance in the capacity of clerk and will live in the 'ouse," said Mr. Guppy.†
Chpt 64-65 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (render as in: rendered her unconscious) to make or cause to become
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(2) (render as in: rendered service or a verdict) to give or supply something
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(render as in: rendered interpretation) to portray or create something in a particular way; or to interpret, translate, or extract fromThe exact meaning of this sense of render depends upon its context. For example:
- "Each artist will render a different interpretation when painting a portrait." -- create in a particular way
- "A Supreme Court judge may render his own interpretation of the Constitution." -- interpret in a particular way
- "The computer you are using, rendered this page from software instructions." -- created through interpretation
- "A graph is rendered from the underlying data." -- made
- "Fat can be rendered (extracted) by cooking meat slowly." -- extracted from