Rendition vs Edition - What's the difference?
rendition | edition |
Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work.
* 2011 , Ian Cobain, The Guardian , 30 Mar 2011:
An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.
* 2011 , Paul Lester, The Guardian , 12 Apr 2011:
A given visual reproduction of something.
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,
A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner.
The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.
As nouns the difference between rendition and edition
is that rendition is the surrender (of a city, fortress etc.) while edition is a literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner.As a verb rendition
is to surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.rendition
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
See also
* extraditionVerb
(en verb)- Records show that only about three hundred fugitive slaves were renditioned to the South between 1850 and secession a decade later.