different between rendition vs facsimile

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

English

Etymology

From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fæk?s?m.?.li/

Noun

facsimile (plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

1. (countable) A copy or reproduction.
   • 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” in Twentieth Century Theories of Art (1990), ed. James Matheson Thompson, § VIII, 540:

     To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:facsimile.
2. (uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
4. The image sent by the machine itself.

Synonyms

• (copy): autotype, copy, reproduction
• (machine): facsimile machine, fax, fax machine
• (copy made by a facsimile): facsimile reproduction, fax

Translations

Verb

facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing or facsimiling, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)

1. (transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
2. (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.

Synonyms

• fax, telefax

Translations