Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of rendering.
- noun An interpretation or performance of a musical score or a dramatic piece.
- noun A translation from one language to another.
- noun The surrender of a person, place, or possession, as to an authority or a victorious force.
- noun The transfer of a prisoner or suspect from one country to another, often to avoid legal restrictions on interrogation or prosecution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of rendering or translating; a rendering or giving the meaning of a word or passage; translation.
- noun The act of rendering up or yielding possession; surrender.
- noun The act of rendering or reproducing artistically.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun Translation; rendering; version.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
surrender orhand over (a person or thing); especially, for onejurisdiction to do so to another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun handing over prisoners to countries where torture is allowed
- noun a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.
- noun an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious
- noun the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This is the first known official use of the term rendition, although it is already in informal use.
Cheney Admits Authorizing Torture (Or, If You're Going to Do Something Illegal and Immoral...) 2008
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This is the first known official use of the term rendition, although it is already in informal use.
Cheney Admits Authorizing Torture (Or, If You're Going to Do Something Illegal and Immoral...) 2008
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This is the first known official use of the term rendition, although it is already in informal use.
Cheney Admits Authorizing Torture (Or, If You're Going to Do Something Illegal and Immoral...) 2008
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This is the first known official use of the term rendition, although it is already in informal use.
Cheney Admits Authorizing Torture (Or, If You're Going to Do Something Illegal and Immoral...) 2008
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I believe I grasp these but your rendition is appreciated: lo que tú quieres =? si tú quieres ir puedes = if you want to go you can si te quierer ir puedes =? thanks
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Washington Post: U.S. citizen sues over treatment in 'rendition'
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Several have recalled "Bill" at the Drop Zone boasting about his partners 'participation in rendition and black ops overseas.
Shannyn Moore: Joe Miller's Alaskan Militia Shannyn Moore 2010
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Several have recalled "Bill" at the Drop Zone boasting about his partners 'participation in rendition and black ops overseas.
Shannyn Moore: Joe Miller's Alaskan Militia Shannyn Moore 2010
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Several have recalled "Bill" at the Drop Zone boasting about his partners 'participation in rendition and black ops overseas.
Shannyn Moore: Joe Miller's Alaskan Militia Shannyn Moore 2010
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Extraordinary rendition is legally and morally problematic.
skipvia commented on the word rendition
This word has such a dark connotation these days.
October 10, 2007
seanahan commented on the word rendition
I thought it might be related to rend, but the etymologies are distinct.
October 10, 2007
skipvia commented on the word rendition
I thought the same thing. Unfortunately, it conjures up a mental picture of someone being rendered over a fire.
Which is not technically torture, according to our president.
October 10, 2007
mariecarnes commented on the word rendition
"In the view of Mr. Addington and his acolytes, anything and everything that the president authorized in the fight against terror - regardless of what the Constitution or Congress or the Geneva Conventions might say - was all right. That included torture, rendition, warrantless wiretapping, the suspension of habeas corpus, you name it." Link
July 23, 2008
bilby commented on the word rendition
"The case was a huge symbolic victory for Italian prosecutors, who drew the first convictions involving the US practice of rendition, in which terrorism suspects are captured in one country and taken for questioning in another, often one more open to coercive interrogation techniques."
- AFP, NYT, CIA spy lashes out after Italian conviction, theage.com.au, 6 Nov 2009.
November 6, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word rendition
Mock book-cover rendered in Adobe Photoshop some time ago, on a whim....
November 6, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word rendition
SpspoCH phPHPTS?
November 6, 2009