Portrait vs Rendition - What's the difference?
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A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
* Sir J. Reynolds
(figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.
Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
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,
As nouns the difference between portrait and rendition
is that portrait is a painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders while rendition is the surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).As verbs the difference between portrait and rendition
is that portrait is to portray; to draw while rendition is to surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.As an adjective portrait
is representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.portrait
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Alternative forms
* pourtraict (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In portraits , the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
- The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
Antonyms
* (print mode or selection) landscape * (print mode or selection) profileAdjective
(-)- a portrait''' bust; a '''portrait statue
rendition
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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.