What is the difference between rendition and translation?
rendition | translation |
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,
(label) The act or (label) an act of translating, in its various senses:
# The conversion of text from one language to another.
# The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
# (label) A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
# (label) The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
# A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
# The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
## (label) An ascension to Heaven without death.
## (label) A transfer of a bishop from one diocese to another.
## (label) A transfer of a holy relic from one shrine to another.
## (label) A transfer of a disease from one body part to another.
(label) The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.
As nouns the difference between rendition and translation
is that rendition is the surrender (of a city, fortress etc.) while translation is the act or an act of translating, in its various senses.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.