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render something down 
1. Lit. to cook the fat out of something. Polly rendered the chicken fat down to a bit of golden grease that she would use in cooking a special dish. Jane rendered down the fat for use later. The cook rendered it down.
2. Fig. to reduce or simplify something to its essentials. Let's render this problem down to the considerations that are important to us. Can't we render down this matter into its essentials? Not all of this is important. Let's render it down.

render something in(to) something

to translate something into something. Now, see if you can render this passage in French. Are you able to render this into German?

render something to someone or something and render something up (to someone or something)

to give something to someone or a group. You must render your taxes to the government. I will render my money to the tax collector. I had to render up all my earnings.


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We will also be investigating errors that result from the process of generating renderable 3D geometric primitives from underlying data representations (for example, CT scans).
Besides the software interaction, file functionality also depends on standards, agreements, and understandings in interfaces, cabling, and hardware, and still this represents just a small set of examples of the complex interdependencies and detailed interaction that goes into making a digital object renderable.
[31] On a cultural level, the symptoms that taxonomy no longer contains are instances of mixed genre and species, imagined primarily in science fiction, but renderable through the same computer technologies by which makeover comparisons are portrayed.
 
 
 
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