Adjacent Words

Rendition definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RENDI'TION, n. [from render.]
1. The act of yielding possession; surrender.
2. Translation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.; "they heard a live rendition of three pieces by Schubert" [syn: rendition, 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, rendition, rendering]
3: handing over prisoners to countries where torture is allowed
4: the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving" [syn: rendition, rendering, interpretation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: obsolete French, from Middle French, alteration of reddition, from Late Latin reddition-, redditio, from Latin reddere to return Date: 1601 the act or result of rendering: as a. surrender b. translation c. performance, interpretation

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (often foll. by of) 1 an interpretation or rendering of a dramatic role, piece of music, etc. 2 a visual representation. Etymology: obs. F f. rendre RENDER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rendition Ren*di"tion (r?n-d?sh"?n), n. [LL. rendere to render: cf. L. redditio. See Render, and cf. Reddition.] 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. The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold blood after articles of rendition. --Evelyn. 2. Translation; rendering; version. This rendition of the word seems also most naturally to agree with the genuine meaning of some other words in the same verse. --South.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(renditions) A rendition of a play, poem, or piece of music is a performance of it. The musicians burst into a rousing rendition of 'Paddy Casey's Reel'. = performance N-COUNT: usu N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Return, restitution, surrender. 2. Translation, rendering, version. 3. Rendering, interpretation, delineation, reproduction, representation, exhibition.

Moby Thesaurus

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