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Artful vs Rendition - What's the difference?

artful | rendition |

As an adjective artful

is performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.

As a noun rendition is

the surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).

As a verb rendition is

to surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.

artful

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Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
  • Artificial; imitative.
  • Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
  • Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=June 29 , author=Kevin Mitchell , title=Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Where the Czech upstart Rosol, ranked 100 in the world, all but blew Nadal's head off with his blunderbuss in a fifth set of unrivalled intensity on Thursday night, Benneteau, a more artful citizen, used a rapier to hurt his vaunted foe before falling just short of a kill. In the end, it was he who staggered from the scene of the fight. }}

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    * artful dodger * artfully * artfulness

    rendition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work.
  • * 2011 , Ian Cobain, The Guardian , 30 Mar 2011:
    • Since then, according to his lawyers and relatives, he has been repeatedly beaten, threatened with a firearm and with further rendition to Guantánamo by Ugandan officials, before being questioned by American officials.
  • An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.
  • * 2011 , Paul Lester, The Guardian , 12 Apr 2011:
    • The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts.
  • A given visual reproduction of something.

    • Related terms

    * render

    See also

    * extradition

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially , for one jurisdiction to do so to another.
  • * 2007 , Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America , Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0275991687, page 60,
    • Records show that only about three hundred fugitive slaves were renditioned to the South between 1850 and secession a decade later.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "rendition")

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