different between portrait vs rendition

English

Alternative forms

• pourtraict (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin pr?trah?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?p??t?e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?p??t?e?t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?po??t?e?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po?t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?po?t?e?t/

Noun

portrait (countable and uncountable, plural portraits)

1. (countable) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
   • a. 1792, Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts

     In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.

2. (countable, figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.

3. (computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

Antonyms

• (print mode or selection): landscape
• (print mode or selection): profile

Related terms

• portray

Translations

Verb

portrait (third-person singular simple present portraits, present participle portraiting, simple past and past participle portraited)

1. (obsolete) To portray; to draw.

Adjective

portrait (not comparable)

1. Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.

   a portrait bust; a portrait statue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t??/

Noun

portrait m (plural portraits)

1. portrait
2. (printing) portrait (format)
3. description (of a person or things)

Antonyms

• (2) paysage

Derived terms

• portrait craché
• refaire le portrait

Descendants

• ? Dutch: portret
  • Afrikaans: portret
  • ? Indonesian: potret
• ? German: Porträt

Further reading

• “portrait” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Noun

portrait m (plural portraits)

1. (Jersey) portrait

English

Etymology

From obsolete French rendition, alteration (after rendre (“to render”)) of reddition (“reddition”). Many senses influenced by render.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?d??(?)n/
• Hyphenation: ren?di?tion

Noun

rendition (countable and uncountable, plural renditions)

1. (now rare) The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.). [from 17th c.]
2. (now rare) The handing over of a person or thing. [from 17th c.]
3. Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work. [from 17th c.]
4. (law, chiefly US) Formal deliverance of a verdict. [from 18th c.]
5. (law, chiefly US) The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition. [from 19th c.]
   • 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.

6. An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work. [from 19th c.]
   • 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.
7. A given visual reproduction of something. [from 20th c.]

Hyponyms

• extraordinary rendition

Related terms

• render

Translations

See also

• extradition

Verb

rendition (third-person singular simple present renditions, present participle renditioning, simple past and past participle renditioned)

1. (transitive) 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,^[1] Greenwood Publishing Group, ?ISBN, 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

• rendition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nitrenoid