What's the difference between rendition and translation?

Rendition


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Translation; rendering; version.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An artist's rendition of the entire normal gerbil tympanic membrane is presented.
  • (2) Simon said he ruled against Belhaj because American, as well as British, officials were involved in the operation – the rendition of Belhaj and his pregnant wife to Tripoli in 2004 – which Belhaj wanted a British court to declare unlawful.
  • (3) To his credit, one of the Prime Minister's first acts after entering No10 was to announce an inquiry into the UK's involvement in rendition and torture.
  • (4) "Greeks need to unburden their fears," says the comic, the scent of cologne permeating his dressing room after he has danced, sung and quipped his way through another rendition of "Sorry … I'm Greek".
  • (5) I haven't felt this enlightened since extraordinary rendition.
  • (6) The influx of complaints – mainly from former detainees alleging mistreatment, false imprisonment or UK complicity in rendition – demonstrates, according to the Cabinet Office, why secret court hearings are required.
  • (7) As a result of the case, the identities of some of the corporations involved in the rendition programme have been disclosed for the first time, along with the names of some of the executives who knew the purpose of the flights.
  • (8) Brennan's testimony theoretically represents a rare chance to learn more about drone killing, warrantless wiretapping, torture, rendition, foreign meddling and other odd cloak-and-daggery.
  • (9) Eight Libyans, members of the two families, say they were victims of rendition.
  • (10) She performed an emotional rendition of Open Your Heart at this year's Grammy awards as 33 couples were wed onstage during a performance by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, and also guested on Miley Cyrus's MTV Unplugged set.
  • (11) The authors also conclude that the UK-Libyan rendition operations that resulted in the abduction of two dissidents who were taken to Tripoli along with their families in 2004 were intended not to combat international terrorism, but to "gain favour" with the Gaddafi regime.
  • (12) The UK's support for the CIA's global rendition programme after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US was far more substantial than has previously been recognised, according to a new research project that draws on a vast number of publicly available data and documentation.
  • (13) The project also brings to light new information on the methods used to avoid detection of rendition flights, particularly as journalists became aware of the programme.
  • (14) I can today confirm that the UK continues to welcome the US presence, and that the agreements will continue as they stand until 30 December 2036.” Human rights groups have claimed that the Diego Garcia base was used for rendition flights involving jihadi suspects, including during the transfer of the Libyan dissident Abdul Hakim-Belhaj to Tripoli in 2004.
  • (15) It is disproportionate and unnecessary, which is probably why it appeals to Jack Straw, who still faces embarrassing questions on torture and rendition that took place on his watch.
  • (16) Other countries are conspicuous by their absence from the rendition list: Sweden and Finland are present, but there is no evidence of Norwegian involvement.
  • (17) However, Diego Garcia was used for a small number of rendition operations – despite repeated claims by the British government that this had not happened – and a number of human rights group remain convinced that prisoners were incarcerated there.
  • (18) And one of the question marks above David Miliband’s head ... One of the issues is, he was foreign secretary at the time that extraordinary rendition was going on, and the question is: how much did he know?
  • (19) The different sketches and 3D renditions of the ten projects make audacious and compelling viewing (see them here ).
  • (20) Alicia Keys and John Legend will duet on Let It Be , while John Mayer has agreed to join country singer Keith Urban for a rendition of Don't Let Me Down .

Translation


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.
  • (n.) That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.
  • (n.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.
  • (n.) Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.
  • (n.) Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These lysates are comparable to those of Escherichia coli in transcriptional and translational fidelity and efficiency in response to a given template DNA.
  • (2) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
  • (3) The mtRF-1 could translate all of the known termination codons in the rat mitochondrial genome.
  • (4) RNA transcribed in vitro from the early region of bacteriophage T3 or T7 was translated by cytoplasmic ribosomes which synthesized protein in cell-free systems prepared from mammalian cells and wheat germ.
  • (5) Translation: 'We do less, you get yourself sorted.'"
  • (6) Release of nsP4 from P1234 appears to be independent of the other cleavages and occurs primarily immediately after translation.
  • (7) The 21K peptide had little direct effect on the selection of promoters in vitro as measured by this technique, but it dramatically increased the translatability of the product.
  • (8) It is proposed that in A. brasilense, the PII protein and glutamine synthetase are involved in a post-translational modification of NifA.
  • (9) Three short reviews by Freud (1904c, 1904d, 1905f) are presented in English translation.
  • (10) The sequence results confirm in vitro translation of 27-, 50-, and 37-kDa products but do not account for the observed 90-kDa product.
  • (11) Moreover, nick-translated [32-P]-pCS75, which is a pUC9 derivative containing a PstI insert with L and S subunit genes (for RuBisCO) from A. nidulans, hybridizes at very high stringency with restriction fragments from chromosomal DNA of untransformed and transformed cells as does the 32P-labeled PstI fragment itself.
  • (12) These results would suggest that N-terminal acetylation and C-terminal proteolytic cleavage are important post-translational modifications of the forms of Amia beta-endorphin.
  • (13) Translation of the tnsC ORF reveals strong homology to a consensus sequence for nucleotide binding sites as well as a region of similarity to a transcriptional activator (MalT).
  • (14) The results indicate that the sequence between nucleotide positions 101 and 332 in the 5' untranslated region of HCV RNA plays an important role in efficient translation.
  • (15) Subcloning of pLR beta 118 into a transcription vector with subsequent in vitro transcription and translation using the reticulocyte lysate system in the presence of microsomes followed by immunoprecipitation with mAb OX6 and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis revealed the intact RT1.B beta I-chain.
  • (16) Immunochemical analysis of the translation products indicated that phenobarbital induced a 30-fold increase in UDP-GT mRNA.
  • (17) In all cases studied, the presence of a translation termination codon correlates with a decrease in the steady-state level of mRNA.
  • (18) DNA fragments coding for signal peptides with different lengths (28, 31, 33 and 41 amino acids from the translation initiator Met) were prepared and fused with the E. coli beta-lactamase structural gene.
  • (19) The 3' end of the cell cycle regulated mRNA terminates immediately following the region of hyphenated dyad symmetry typical of most histone mRNAs, whereas the constitutively expressed mRNA has a 1798 nt non-translated trailer that contains the same region of hyphenated dyad symmetry but is polyadenylated.
  • (20) The translation of mRNA for S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase was studied using a polyamine-depleted reticulocyte lysate supplemented with mRNA from rat prostate and the antiserum to precipitate the proteins corresponding to S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase.