(v. t.) To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.
(v. t.) To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.
(v. t.) To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.
(v. t.) To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.
(v. t.) To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.
(v. t.) To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.
(v. i.) To give an account; to make explanation or confession.
(v. i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way.
(n.) A surrender.
(n.) A return; a payment of rent.
(n.) An account given; a statement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Expression of transfected CD4 on the surface of HeLa and other human cells renders them susceptible to HIV infection 10.
(2) If an E. coli Gal-U mutant strain, defective in the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) carbohydrate chain length, was used, each approach rendered 100% labelling.
(3) The use of sulphur-containing amino acids and 2-deoxyglucose in growth media led to impaired cell wall synthesis and rendered cells very susceptible to treatment with mercapto-ethanol and various lytic enzymes.
(4) This was capable of sensitizing human thyroid (and other) cells and rendering them susceptible to killing by normal lymphocytes.
(5) The conventional explanation for the high fatality rate due to cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis among allogeneic transplant recipients is that immunosuppression renders the host unable to control replication of this opportunistic agent.
(6) This chapter describes a systematic approach to the art of collection for services rendered, based primarily on a pay-as-you-go philosophy.
(7) Newborn rats were rendered hyperthyroid (daily subcutaneous injections of L-triiodothyronine, 10 micrograms 100 g-1 body weight) or hypothyroid (0.05% 6-n-propyl-2-thiouracil in drinking water to nursing mothers) during the first 3 weeks of postnatal life.
(8) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
(9) Most ears are rendered dry and safe, with cavity problems minimized by careful technique.
(10) All initially positive patients were rendered tilt negative by therapy.
(11) In a noncontracting in vitro preparation of combined right and left atria we demonstrated by electron microscopy that, at 37 degrees C, transition from zero pressure to a physiological distending pressure of 5.1 mm Hg rapidly rendered atrial endocardial endothelium permeable to the macromolecular probes horseradish peroxidase (HRP; M(r), approximately 40,000) and wheat germ agglutinin-HRP (M(r), approximately 70,000); each probe was introduced at the atrial cavitary endocardial surface.
(12) Davis said he would be surprised if an incoming Conservative government did not set up an immediate inquiry into this case and others where Britain is alleged to have been involved in the secret rendering by the US of detainees to prison where they were likely to be tortured.
(13) (c) A greater than 80% reduction in clone PAK 17.15 lung colony number was observed in mice rendered thrombocytopenic by i.v.
(14) Exact comparisons of recovery of ocular tone (Maddox Wing test) between the anaesthetics were not possible as both Althesin and methohexitone rendered some patients incapable of taking the tests in the early post-operative period.
(15) (vii) Two deletions within the EBNA-2 gene which rendered EBV transformation incompetent did not transactivate LMP1, whereas a transformation-competent EBNA-2 deletion mutant did transactivate LMP1.
(16) Psychiatrists in the U.S. have raised a host of issues related to their experience with peer review including a concern for the patient's confidentiality, the need to correlate normative standards with local customary practice, the significance of the reviewer's theoretical orientation and training, the optimal documentation required and the impact of peer review on the reimbursement of claims for services rendered.
(17) Thus, the solid-phase synthesis of peptides selectively deprotected at the side chain of tyrosine is rendered possible by the use of 2-chlorotrityl resin and Fmoc-Tyr(Trt)-OH.
(18) Either vaccine given at full dosage alone, or in combination, rendered birds resistant to homologous viral challenge.
(19) This erratic course renders difficult assessment of the efficacy of methods of treatment.
(20) Off came defensive midfielder Claudio Yacob, rendered surplus to requirements by the dismissals of Afellay and Adam, and on went forward Rickie Lambert.
Stucco
Definition:
(n.) Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work.
(n.) Work made of stucco; stuccowork.
(v. t.) To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.
Example Sentences:
(1) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(2) His art has authority, even though he seemed forever stuck in a postwar London of peeling stucco and disappointed lives.
(3) The buildings appear to be an ersatz nod to the old world by a designer with a stucco fetish, and are hard to ignore due to the blitzkrieg of colour unleashed on innocent passers-by.
(4) Nash was heavily criticised in his day and after for preferring grandiose scenic effects over actual build quality, with cheap brick houses under the painted cream stucco, but now his developments are kept up to a sparkle by their astonishingly wealthy occupiers.
(5) Property experts say homes similar to the 115-year-old stucco-fronted townhouse fetch rents of around £25,000 a week and could sell for as much as £12m.
(6) Lambeau Field has a heating system buried beneath the turf to keep the field from freezing, but it failed during the Ice Bowl, leaving the sod feeling as though "someone had taken a stucco wall and laid it on the ground", according to journalist David Maraniss.
(7) Once a sleepy mountain town of low-rise homes, Kabul's smartest areas are now a grid of multicoloured, multi-storey family palaces studded with mirrors and stucco, one even boasting a rooftop lion enclosure.
(8) In the white-stuccoed nave of St Martin-In-The-Fields, cloistered from the late afternoon traffic of Trafalgar Square, a choir is performing one of the canticles of Evensong.
(9) The seminar was held in what looked like the ballroom of a grand hotel, with stucco columns and mirrored ceilings.
(10) "We believe that we are in sector on our own," Bowman says, in a basement boardroom at the company's headquarters in a grand house on the edge of Regent's Park in central London, its white stucco gleaming in the spring sunshine.
(11) Cabo Polonio is a self-contained community of hippies and fishermen; with each dwelling an individual endeavour - scattered across grass and dune are wooden huts, one-room stucco houses and inventive shacks with roofs of thatch and multicoloured corrugated iron.
(12) Kensington Palace Gardens – where global plutocrats such as Roman Abramovich, Leonard Blavatnik and Lakshmi Mittal own stuccoed mansions, and where one house belonging to a Saudi prince is discreetly on sale (which I think means it isn't on any property websites) for around £100m – is regularly listed as the most expensive place to buy a house in London .
(13) Rewind an hour, before the dash to Palin, and here he is, the Great Linneck, downstairs in the stucco splendour of the Royal Institute of British Architects building in London, attentive, polite and always on the verge of that familiar gurgling laugh.
(14) The other is expressed in flurries of construction activity – dust, noise, machines, workers, trucks carting off piles of mud – as if mining companies were extracting something precious from beneath the well-tended stucco of the Victorian terraces.
(15) Photograph: BVG Archive Some of the signs and stations have a grandeur in keeping with the swagger of the Wilhelmine era: many of the stops on the U3 line, opened in 1913, are built in a neoclassical style with stuccoed walls, period columns and mosaic station signs that spell out the names in confident capitals.
(16) He was born Gideon Oliver Osborne in 1971, and grew up in Notting Hill in west London, as the famous stucco inner suburb steadily metamorphosed from rundown immigrant quarter and squatters' paradise into a sloane heartland.
(17) Most of the intricate stucco has been lost, but the small areas that remain give an idea of how beautiful the building must once have been.
(18) It's a vastly different experience, still offering terrific shopping and most of the city's excessive architecture; the mad mock-chteaux, mullioned 1920s Tudor mansions, 50s-o-rama "dingbat" stucco apartment blocks: a fantastical, variegated stew characterised by architectural critic Charles Jencks as Heteropolis.
(19) The morphological picture was the same whether it occurred around an acquired naevus cell naevus, a congenital naevus cell naevus, a seborrheic keratosis, a stucco-keratosis, a keloid, a benign lentigo, an insect bite, a basal cell carcinoma, or a squamous cell carcinoma.
(20) Some of the houses verge on hideous, iced with yellow-cream stucco, shiny, bright and reminiscent of custard or, at the Kensington end of the road, like dreary, red-brick school buildings.