Rendition

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rendition \Ren*di"tion\ (r?n-d?sh"?n), n. [LL. rendere to
     render: cf. L. redditio. See {Render}, and cf. {Reddition}.]
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     1. The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as
        of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign
        government; also, surrender in war.


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              The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold
              blood after articles of rendition.    --Evelyn.
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     2. Translation; rendering; version.
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              This rendition of the word seems also most naturally
              to agree with the genuine meaning of some other
              words in the same verse.              --South.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rendition
       n 1: a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role
            etc.; "they heard a live rendition of three pieces by
            Schubert" [syn: {rendering}]
       2: an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious;
          "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he
          annoyed us with his interpreting of parables"; "often
          imitations are extended to provide a more accurate
          rendition of the child's intended meaning" [syn: {interpretation},
           {interpreting}, {rendering}]
       3: the act of interpreting something as expressed in an
          artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was
          extraordinarily moving" [syn: {rendering}, {interpretation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  131 Moby Thesaurus words for "rendition":
     alphabet, art, blueprint, cameo, cantando, catalog, cataloging,
     character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart,
     choreography, composite reading, concentration, concept,
     conception, conflation, construction, conventional representation,
     critical edition, dance notation, decoction, delineation,
     demilegato, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description,
     details, diagram, diplomatic text, distillation, drama, drawing,
     edited text, edition, evocation, execution, exemplification,
     expression, extradition, figuration, fingering, giving back,
     glissando, graphic account, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram,
     illustration, image, imagery, imaging, impression, infusion,
     interpretation, intonation, itemization, lection, legato, letter,
     limning, logogram, logograph, map, mezzo staccato, music-making,
     musical notation, normalized text, notation, parlando,
     particularization, performance, photograph, pianism, pictogram,
     picture, picturization, pizzicato, plan, portrait, portraiture,
     portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, pressing, printing, profile,
     projection, reading, realization, recommitment, reddition, remand,
     remandment, remitter, rendering, repatriation, repercussion,
     representation, restitution, restoration, restoring, return,
     rubato, schema, scholarly edition, score, script, sending back,
     sketch, slur, soaking, specification, spiccato, squeezing,
     staccato, steeping, syllabary, symbol, tablature, text, touch,
     understanding, variant, version, vignette, vivid description,
     word painting, writing