Rendition vs. Translation — What's the Difference?

The act of rendering

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or signed communication between users of different languages); under this distinction, translation can begin only after the appearance of writing within a language community.

An interpretation or performance of a musical score or a dramatic piece.

The act or process of translating, especially from one language into another.

A translation from one language to another.

The state of being translated.

The surrender of a person, place, or possession, as to an authority or a victorious force.

A translated version of a text.

The transfer of a prisoner or suspect from one country to another, often to avoid legal restrictions on interrogation or prosecution.

(Physics) Motion of a body in which every point of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point of the body.

An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.

(Biology) The process by which messenger RNA directs the amino acid sequence of a growing polypeptide during protein synthesis.

A given visual reproduction of something.

The act of translating, in its various senses:

Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work.

The conversion of text from one language to another.

Formal deliverance of a verdict.

(translation studies) The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).

The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition.

The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.

The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).

A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.

The handing over of a person or thing.

(mathematics) A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added to the coordinates of a corresponding point in the other figure.

(transitive) To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.

(genetics) The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.

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.

(physics) A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.

Translation; rendering; version.

The automatic retransmission of a telegraph message.

A performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.;

The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:

An explanation of something that is not immediately obvious;

(countable) The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.

The act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance;

The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.

The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.

A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.

Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.

Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; - opposed to rotation.

A written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

A uniform movement without rotation

The act of changing in form or shape or appearance;

(mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same

(genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm

Rewording something in less technical terminology

The act of uniform movement