v.
      - provide or give (a service, help, etc.). 
▸submit for inspection, consideration, or payment.
 ▸literary hand over; surrender.
 - cause to be or become:
 the rains rendered his escape impossible.
 - represent or depict artistically. 
▸perform (a piece of music).
 ▸translate.
 - melt down (fat) in order to clarify it. 
▸process (the carcass of an animal) in order to extract proteins, fats, and other usable parts.
 - cover (stone or brick) with a coat of plaster.
 - Computing  process (an image) in order to make it appear solid and three-dimensional.
 
n.
 a first coat of plaster applied to a brick or stone surface.
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. rendre, from an alt. of L. reddere ‘give back’.