All 9 Uses
render
in
Cat's Eye
(Edited)
- Also I don't like it that this is where paintings end up, on these neutral-toned walls with the track lighting, sterilized, rendered safe and acceptable.
p. 92.4rendered = portrayed or created something in a particular way OR interpreted, translated, or extracted from
- Face out is a piece I painted twenty years ago: Mrs. Smeath, beautifully rendered in egg tempera, with her gray hairpin crown and her potato face and her spectacles, wearing nothing but her flowered one-breast bib apron.
p. 93.1
- Nevertheless they sit in Life Drawing, scratching away with the charcoal and turning out rendering after rendering of breasts and buttocks, thighs and necks, and some nights nothing but feet, as I do, while Mr. Hrbik strides up and down, tugging at his hair and despairing.
p. 306.8rendering = portraying or creating something in a particular way OR interpreting, translating, or extracting from
- Nevertheless they sit in Life Drawing, scratching away with the charcoal and turning out rendering after rendering of breasts and buttocks, thighs and necks, and some nights nothing but feet, as I do, while Mr. Hrbik strides up and down, tugging at his hair and despairing.
p. 306.8
- The dry voice from the darkness concentrates on the formal properties of the compositions, ... the rendering of textures, the uses of perspective in archways and in the tiles underfoot.
p. 310.3 *rendering = portrayal (showing or creating in a particular way)
- The naked women are presented in the same manner as the plates of meat and dead lobsters, with the same attention to the play of candlelight on skin, the same lusciousness, the same sensuous and richly rendered detail, the same painterly delight in tactility.
p. 354.7rendered = portrayed or created something in a particular way OR interpreted, translated, or extracted from
- Richly rendered, I write.
p. 354.8
- His specialty is the rendering of smiles: the trick is to be able to do teeth, nice white even teeth, without putting in the separation between each tooth, which makes the smile appear too canine or too much like false teeth (which he himself has).
p. 356.8rendering = portraying or creating something in a particular way OR interpreting, translating, or extracting from
- I'm also invited to take part in several group showings, mostly by women: they've heard about the ink throwing, read the snotty reviews, all of which render me legitimate, although from the east.
p. 413.6render = portray or create in a particular way OR interpret, translate, or extract from
Definitions:
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(1)
(render as in: rendered service or a verdict) to give or supply something
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(2)
(render as in: rendered her unconscious) to make or cause to become
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(3)
(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
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of render.