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Construction vs Rendition - What's the difference?

construction | rendition | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between construction and rendition

is that construction is the process of constructing while 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.

construction

English

* ("construction" on Wikipedia) *

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of constructing.
    • Construction is underway on the new bridge.
  • Anything that has been constructed.
    • The engineer marvelled at his construction .
  • The trade of building structures.
    • He had worked in construction all his life.
  • A building, model or some other structure.
    • The office was a construction of steel and glass.
  • (arts) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
    • "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
  • The manner in which something is built.
    • A thing of simple construction .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
  • (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
  • The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
    • American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
  • The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
  • * 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95:
    • He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have.
  • (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

    • Synonyms

    * building

    Antonyms

    * destruction

    Derived terms

    * constructionism * constructionist * construction paper * construction site * construction soldier * construction unit * deconstruction * metaconstruction * misconstruction * reconstruction * under construction

    Related terms

    * construct * constructionless * constructive

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    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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