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Rendition vs Variation - What's the difference?

rendition | variation |

As nouns the difference between rendition and variation

is that rendition is the surrender (of a city, fortress etc.) while variation is the act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.

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)
  • 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")

    Anagrams

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    variation

    English

    (wikipedia variation)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
    • , title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
  • A related but distinct thing.
  • (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north. Also called magnetic declination.
  • (board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
  • (music) A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bass.

    • Derived terms

    * magnetic variation * theme and variations

    Related terms

    * vary * variant

    References

    * US FM 55-501 MARINE CREWMAN’S HANDBOOK; 1 December 1999 * * ----