From bartleby.com:
1. To tear or split apart or into pieces violently. See synonyms at tear1. 2. To tear (one's garments or hair) in anguish or rage. 3. To tear away forcibly; wrest. 4. To pull, split, or divide as if by tearing: “Chip was rent between the impulse to laugh wildly and a bitterness that threatened hot tears” (Louis Auchincloss). 5. To pierce or disturb with sound: a scream rent the silence. 6. To cause pain or distress to: tales that rend the heart.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To become torn or split; come apart.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English renden, from Old English rendan.
Rend
Apparently no connection between 'rend' and 'rendering' in any of the latter's definitions.
rendering
SYLLABICATION: ren·der·ing
PRONUNCIATION: rndr-ng
NOUN: 1. A depiction or interpretation, as in painting or music. 2. A drawing in perspective of a proposed structure. 3. A translation: a rendering of Cicero's treatises into English. 4. A coat of plaster or cement applied to a masonry surface.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Meaning 4. above:
In GB, I believe, plastering and rendering are quite different. The former, containing plaster of paris (gypsum), is not suitable for external use so facades are not 'plastered' but' rendered' using a mix of lime or cement.
No distinction in definition there in the US?
rendering
SYLLABICATION: ren·der·ing
PRONUNCIATION: rndr-ng
NOUN: 1. A depiction or interpretation, as in painting or music. 2. A drawing in perspective of a proposed structure. 3. A translation: a rendering of Cicero's treatises into English. 4. A coat of plaster or cement applied to a masonry surface.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Meaning 4. above:
In GB, I believe, plastering and rendering are quite different. The former, containing plaster of paris (gypsum), is not suitable for external use so facades are not 'plastered' but' rendered' using a mix of lime or cement.
No distinction in definition there in the US?
Being the country boy I am, I didn't see a definition that fit one of my most common understandings of the word. Render; or to render as in lard, or send the old horse to the renderer. So...I had to go looking.
Interesting word with an awful lot of meanings.
Render
Pronunciation: \ˈren-dər\
Function:verb
Inflected Form(s):ren·dered; ren·der·ing
Etymology: Middle English rendren, from Anglo-French rendre to give back, surrender, from Vulgar Latin *rendere, alteration of Latin reddere, partly from re- + dare to give & partly from re- + -dere to put — more at date, do
Date: 14th century
transitive verb
1 a: to melt down <render suet> ; also : to extract by melting <render lard> b: to treat so as to convert into industrial fats and oils or fertilizer
2 a: to transmit to another : deliver b: give up , yield c: to furnish for consideration, approval, or information: as (1): to hand down (a legal judgment) (2): to agree on and report (a verdict)
3 a: to give in return or retribution b (1): give back , restore (2): reflect , echo c: to give in acknowledgment of dependence or obligation : pay d: to do (a service) for another
4 a (1): to cause to be or become : make <enough rainfall…to render irrigation unnecessary — P. E. James> <rendered him helpless> (2): impart b (1): to reproduce or represent by artistic or verbal means : depict (2): to give a performance of (3): to produce a copy or version of <the documents are rendered in the original French> (4): to execute the motions of <render a salute> c: translate
5: to direct the execution of : administer <render justice>
6: to apply a coat of plaster or cement directly to intransitive
verb: to give recompense
— ren·der·able \-d(ə-)rə-bəl\ adjective
— ren·der·er \-dər-ər\ noun
Interesting word with an awful lot of meanings.
Render
Pronunciation: \ˈren-dər\
Function:verb
Inflected Form(s):ren·dered; ren·der·ing
Etymology: Middle English rendren, from Anglo-French rendre to give back, surrender, from Vulgar Latin *rendere, alteration of Latin reddere, partly from re- + dare to give & partly from re- + -dere to put — more at date, do
Date: 14th century
transitive verb
1 a: to melt down <render suet> ; also : to extract by melting <render lard> b: to treat so as to convert into industrial fats and oils or fertilizer
2 a: to transmit to another : deliver b: give up , yield c: to furnish for consideration, approval, or information: as (1): to hand down (a legal judgment) (2): to agree on and report (a verdict)
3 a: to give in return or retribution b (1): give back , restore (2): reflect , echo c: to give in acknowledgment of dependence or obligation : pay d: to do (a service) for another
4 a (1): to cause to be or become : make <enough rainfall…to render irrigation unnecessary — P. E. James> <rendered him helpless> (2): impart b (1): to reproduce or represent by artistic or verbal means : depict (2): to give a performance of (3): to produce a copy or version of <the documents are rendered in the original French> (4): to execute the motions of <render a salute> c: translate
5: to direct the execution of : administer <render justice>
6: to apply a coat of plaster or cement directly to intransitive
verb: to give recompense
— ren·der·able \-d(ə-)rə-bəl\ adjective
— ren·der·er \-dər-ər\ noun
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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Vegetarians are wimps!
Variations:
Brainyquote.com:
And if you like sausage, try that Mid-Atlantic delicacy, scrapple. Mmmm! A true testament that they use every part of the pig but the squeal!
Stargzer had to import his own scrapple and canned hominy when he lived in Massachusetts.
Widely attributed to Otto von BismarkIf you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
Variations:
Brainyquote.com:
Wikiquote.org has a plethora of variations in the Disupted section of Bismark quotes.Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. --Bismark
And if you like sausage, try that Mid-Atlantic delicacy, scrapple. Mmmm! A true testament that they use every part of the pig but the squeal!
Stargzer had to import his own scrapple and canned hominy when he lived in Massachusetts.
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
I think that scrapple would be tough for me to get down.
Glad to see the South isn't the only ones with some, um, interesting foods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitterlings
Mmmmmmm...chitlins. Good if you don't know what you're eating. However, once known, you can't unknow it.
Glad to see the South isn't the only ones with some, um, interesting foods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitterlings
Mmmmmmm...chitlins. Good if you don't know what you're eating. However, once known, you can't unknow it.
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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Back in the Johnny Carson Era (for you youngsters out there, Carson was host of the Tonight Show for 29 years before Jay Leno), the late Flip Wilson was guest-hosting and had Lara Parker, the bewitching blonde actress with deep blue eyes who played the vampire Angeliqe from Dark Shadows on the show. Another 60's teen heartthrob! He tossed out a line only Flip Wilson could have gotten away with: "So, I hear you're a spook! Do you like being a spook? I do!"
At the end of the show he had a long buffet table set with Soul Food: collards, black-eyed peas, chittlin's, the whole nine yards. When she picked up a chittlin' and asked him, "What's this?" he said, "Eat it first, then I'll tell you!"
I miss him! He was a really funny guy.
She's still around, and still lookin' great!
At the end of the show he had a long buffet table set with Soul Food: collards, black-eyed peas, chittlin's, the whole nine yards. When she picked up a chittlin' and asked him, "What's this?" he said, "Eat it first, then I'll tell you!"
I miss him! He was a really funny guy.
She's still around, and still lookin' great!
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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