Render vs. Present — What's the Difference?

Provide or give (a service, help, etc.)

The present (or here and now) is the time that is associated with the events perceived directly and in the first time, not as a recollection (perceived more than once) or a speculation (predicted, hypothesis, uncertain). It is a period of time between the past and the future, and can vary in meaning from being an instant to a day or longer.

Cause to be or become; make

A moment or period in time perceptible as intermediate between past and future; now.

Represent or depict artistically

The present tense.

Covertly send (a foreign criminal or terrorist suspect) for interrogation abroad; subject to extraordinary rendition.

A verb form in the present tense.

Melt down (fat) in order to clarify it

Presents(Law) The document or instrument in question

Cover (stone or brick) with a coat of plaster

Pres·ent (prĕzənt) Something presented; a gift.

A first coat of plaster applied to a brick or stone surface.

Pre·sent (prĭ-zĕnt) The position of a rifle or other weapon when presented.

To submit or present, as for consideration, approval, or payment

Existing or happening now; current

To give or make available; provide

Being at hand or in attendance

To give in return or by obligation

Existing in something specified

To deliver or pronounce formally

Now being considered; actually here or involved

To surrender or relinquish; yield

(Grammar) Designating a verb tense or form that expresses current time.

To transfer (a suspect or prisoner) from one country to another by rendition.

(Archaic) Readily available; immediate.

To cause to become; make

(Obsolete) Alert to circumstances; attentive.

To represent in verbal form; depict

To make a gift or award of

To represent in a drawing or painting, especially in perspective.

To make a gift to

(Computers) To convert (graphics) from a file into visual form, as on a video display.

To offer for observation, examination, or consideration; show or display

To perform an interpretation of (a musical piece, for example).

To offer (a play, for example) for public entertainment.

To arrange

To afford or furnish

To express in another language or form; translate

To turn or position in the direction of another

To reduce, convert, or melt down (fat) by heating.

(Immunology) To display (an antigen) on the cell surface. Used especially of cells such as macrophages and dendritic cells, where the displayed antigen activates T cells as part of an immune response.

To coat (brick, for example) with plaster or cement.

To represent or depict in a certain manner

A payment in kind, services, or cash from a tenant to a feudal lord.

To introduce, especially with formal ceremony.

(ditransitive) To cause to become.

To introduce (a young woman) to society with conventional ceremony.

(transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.

To hold, carry, or point (a weapon) in a particular manner as a salutation or sign of honor, usually along the center axis of the body.

(transitive) To translate into another language.

(Ecclesiastical) To recommend (a cleric) for a benefice.

(transitive) To pass down.

To make a presentation.

(transitive) To make over as a return.

To be evident or manifest. Used of a disease or condition

(transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.

To exhibit symptoms or signs during a medical examination

To give up; to yield; to surrender.

Relating to now, for the time being; current.

To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.

Located in the immediate vicinity.

(transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.

(obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.

(transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.

(obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.

To have fat drip off meat from cooking.

(dated) Ready; quick in emergency.

(construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.

(obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.

(nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.

Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.

(nautical) To yield or give way.

Attentive; alert; focused.

(obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.

The current moment or period of time.

(obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.

(grammar) The present tense.

Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).

A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions.

(computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.

(military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.

(obsolete) A surrender.

To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.

(obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.

(transitive) To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.

(obsolete) An account given; a statement.

(transitive) To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.

One who rends.

To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.

One who rends.

(reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.

A surrender.

(transitive) To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.

A return; a payment of rent.

(transitive) To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.

An account given; a statement.

(transitive) To put on, stage (a play etc.).

To return; to pay back; to restore.

To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.

To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.

(reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.

To give up; to yield; to surrender.

To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.

Hence, to furnish; to contribute.

To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.

To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.

To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).

To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.

(transitive) To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).

To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.

(transitive) To give a gift or presentation to (someone).

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.

(transitive) To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.

To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.

(transitive) To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.

To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.

(transitive) To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.

To give an account; to make explanation or confession.

To display one's female genitalia in a way that signals to others that one is ready for copulation. Also referred to as lordosis behaviour.

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.

(fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, to have one's secondary sex (alpha, omega, or beta) become apparent, typically at puberty.

A substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; - opposed to absent.

Cause to become;

Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future; as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance.

Provide or furnish with;

Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.

Give an interpretation or rendition of;

Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit.

Give or supply;

Favorably attentive; propitious.

Pass down;

Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present.

Make over as a return;

Present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, " Know all men by these presents," that is, by the writing itself, " per has literas praesentes; " - in this sense, rarely used in the singular.

Give back;

A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense.

To surrender someone or something to another;

Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present.

Show in, or as in, a picture;

The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present.

Coat with plastic or cement;

To bring or introduce into the presence of some one, especially of a superior; to introduce formally; to offer for acquaintance; as, to present an envoy to the king; (with the reciprocal pronoun) to come into the presence of a superior.

Bestow;

To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance.

Restate (words) from one language into another language;

To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.

Melt (fat, lard, etc.) in order to separate out impurities;

To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.

Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.

To present; to personate.

To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.

To nominate for support at a public school or other institution .

To appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; - said of a part of an infant during labor.

The period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech;

Something presented as a gift;

A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking

Show or demonstrate something to an interested audience;

Bring forward and present to the mind;

Perform (a play), especially on a stage;

Hand over formally

Introduce;

Give, especially as a reward;

Give as a present; make a gift of;

Deliver (a speech, oration, or idea);

Cause to come to know personally;

Represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture, or verbally;

Present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize;

Formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc.

Recognize with a gesture prescribed by a miltary regulation; assume a prescribed position;

Temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration;

Spatial sense; being or existing in a specified place;