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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rendition has 4 senses
- rendition(n = noun.communication) rendering - a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.; "they heard a live rendition of three pieces by Schubert" is a kind of performance, public presentation
- rendition(n = noun.cognition) interpretation, interpreting, rendering - 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" has particulars: broad interpretation, judicial activism
- rendition(n = noun.act) Array - handing over prisoners to countries where torture is allowed; Array is a kind of persecution
- rendition(n = noun.act) interpretation, rendering - the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving" has particulars: reinterpretation, spin
is a kind of explanation
is a kind of performance
Derived form verb render3
CIDE DICTIONARY
- 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. [1913 Webster]"The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold blood after articles of rendition." [1913 Webster]
- Translation; rendering; version. [1913 Webster]"This rendition of the word seems also most naturally to agree with the genuine meaning of some other words in the same verse." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rendition, n. (often foll. by of)
1 an interpretation or rendering of a dramatic role, piece of music, etc.
2 a visual representation.
1 an interpretation or rendering of a dramatic role, piece of music, etc.
2 a visual representation.
Etymology
obs. F f. rendre RENDER
THESAURUS
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, writingROGET THESAURUS
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Restitution
N restitution, return, rendition, reddition, restoration, reinvestment, recuperation, rehabilitation, reparation, atonement, compensation, indemnification, release, replevin, redemption, recovery, remitter, reversion, restoring, recuperative, suum cuique.Interpretation
N interpretation, definition, explanation, explication, solution, answer, rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering, rendition, redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret, clew, clavis, crib, pony, trot, exegesis, expounding, exposition, hermeneutics, comment, commentary, inference, illustration, exemplification, gloss, annotation, scholium, note, elucidation, dilucidation, eclaircissement, mot d'enigme, symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics, metoposcopy, physiognomy, paleography, oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance, light, reading, lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning, synonym, paraphrase, metaphrase, convertible terms, apposition, dictionary, polyglot, explanatory, expository, explicative, explicatory, exegetical, construable, polyglot, literal, paraphrastic, metaphrastic, consignificative, synonymous, equivalent, in explanation, that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words, literally, strictly speaking, in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English, more simply.
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