Difference between Render and Depict

What is the difference between Render and Depict?

Render as a verb is to cause to become. while Depict as a verb is to render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

Render

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause to become. To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of. To pass down. To make over as a return. To give; to give back. To transform digital information in the form received from a repository into a display on a computer screen, or for other presentation to the user. To capture and turn over to another country secretly. To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct. , For fat to drip off meat from cooking.

Example sentence: A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.

Depict

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

Example sentence: I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

We hope you now know whether to use Render or Depict in your sentence.

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