rendition

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ren=di=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

rendition, n. [LL. rendere to render: cf. L. redditio. See Render, and cf. Reddition.].

•  The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war.  [1913 Webster]

  "The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold blood after articles of rendition."  [1913 Webster]
•  Translation; rendering; version.  [1913 Webster]

  "This rendition of the word seems also most naturally to agree with the genuine meaning of some other words in the same verse."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rendition, n. (often foll. by of)
1 an interpretation or rendering of a dramatic role, piece of music, etc.
2 a visual representation.

Etymology

obs. F f. rendre RENDER

THESAURUS

rendition

alphabet, art, blueprint, cameo, cantando, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, composite reading, concentration, concept, conception, conflation, construction, conventional representation, critical edition, dance notation, decoction, delineation, demilegato, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, details, diagram, diplomatic text, distillation, drama, drawing, edited text, edition, evocation, execution, exemplification, expression, extradition, figuration, fingering, giving back, glissando, graphic account, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illustration, image, imagery, imaging, impression, infusion, interpretation, intonation, itemization, lection, legato, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, mezzo staccato, music-making, musical notation, normalized text, notation, parlando, particularization, performance, photograph, pianism, pictogram, picture, picturization, pizzicato, plan, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, pressing, printing, profile, projection, reading, realization, recommitment, reddition, remand, remandment, remitter, rendering, repatriation, repercussion, representation, restitution, restoration, restoring, return, rubato, schema, scholarly edition, score, script, sending back, sketch, slur, soaking, specification, spiccato, squeezing, staccato, steeping, syllabary, symbol, tablature, text, touch, understanding, variant, version, vignette, vivid description, word painting, writing

ROGET THESAURUS

rendition

Restitution

N restitution, return, rendition, reddition, restoration, reinvestment, recuperation, rehabilitation, reparation, atonement, compensation, indemnification, release, replevin, redemption, recovery, remitter, reversion, restoring, recuperative, suum cuique.

Interpretation

N interpretation, definition, explanation, explication, solution, answer, rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering, rendition, redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret, clew, clavis, crib, pony, trot, exegesis, expounding, exposition, hermeneutics, comment, commentary, inference, illustration, exemplification, gloss, annotation, scholium, note, elucidation, dilucidation, eclaircissement, mot d'enigme, symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics, metoposcopy, physiognomy, paleography, oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance, light, reading, lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning, synonym, paraphrase, metaphrase, convertible terms, apposition, dictionary, polyglot, explanatory, expository, explicative, explicatory, exegetical, construable, polyglot, literal, paraphrastic, metaphrastic, consignificative, synonymous, equivalent, in explanation, that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words, literally, strictly speaking, in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English, more simply.