render (something) into (something)
render (something) into (something)
1. To represent, depict, or portray in some visual or verbal form. You input all your information into the app, and it renders your daily activity into an easy-to-understand graph. The author has the uncanny ability of rendering the most intimate, intangible experiences into stark and haunting prose.
2. To translate or express something in a different language. It's very difficult to render this into English, as it will inevitably lack some of the nuance found in the original German text. My job is to render the product's user manual into Japanese. The word is rendered into English as "dread."
3. To convert digital information on a computer into a particular media format. A noun or pronoun can be used between "render" and "down." I'm trying to render the various audio tracks into an MP3 file. I need to export the data and render it into a PDF.
See also: render
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- render
- render (something) in (something)
- render in
- rendering
- depict
- depict (one) as (something)
- depict as
- represent (someone or something) as (something)
- represent as
- portray as