transcribe

[ tran-skrahyb ]

/ trænˈskraɪb /

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verb (used with object), tran·scribed, tran·scrib·ing.

to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).

to make an exact copy of (a document, text, etc.).

to write out in another language or alphabet; translate or transliterate: to transcribe Chinese into English characters.

Phonetics. to represent (speech sounds) in written phonetic or phonemic symbols.

Radio. to make a recording of (a program, announcement, etc.) for broadcasting.

Music. to arrange (a composition) for a medium other than that for which it was originally written.

Genetics. to effect genetic transcription of (a DNA molecule template).

Origin of transcribe

1545–55; < Latin trānscrībere to copy off, equivalent to trāns- trans- + scrībere to write. See scribe¹

OTHER WORDS FROM transcribe

tran·scrib·er, noun mis·tran·scribe, verb (used with object), mis·tran·scribed, mis·tran·scrib·ing. non·tran·scrib·ing, adjective pre·tran·scribe, verb (used with object), pre·tran·scribed, pre·tran·scrib·ing.

re·tran·scribe, verb (used with object), re·tran·scribed, re·tran·scrib·ing. un·tran·scribed, adjective

Words nearby transcribe

transcortical, transcortical apraxia, transcortin, transcranial, transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcribe, transcript, transcriptase, transcription, transcriptome, transcrystalline

Example sentences from the Web for transcribe

And we could make copies of these digital files on our computers and transcribe anywhere anytime we wanted.

Going Public With the Nixon Tapes |Scott Porch |August 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Have one friend with the tendency to transcribe her day from breakfast to bed?

Seven Hacks to Revolutionize Your Facebook Experience |Nina Strochlic |September 24, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The third address “to the Christians” is too long to transcribe here; and should in fairness have been given in the biography.

William Blake |Algernon Charles Swinburne
Cost what it will, I must transcribe the first section of this statute, with all its parliamentary verbiage.

Novanglus, and Massachusettensis |John Adams

It was couched in the formula of chivalric language, which it would be superfluous here to transcribe.

Gomez Arias |Joaqun Telesforo de Trueba y Coso
Apparently he allowed Van Buchell to transcribe the description and the rough pen-sketch from his notebook or traveler's diary.

Shakespearean Playhouses |Joseph Quincy Adams
If the reader suspects that we are going to transcribe the formula for the preparation of these sauces, he is disappointed.

The Gastronomic Regenerator: |Alexis Soyer

British Dictionary definitions for transcribe

transcribe

/ (trænˈskraɪb) /

verb (tr)

to write, type, or print out fully from speech, notes, etc

to make a phonetic transcription of

to transliterate or translate

to make an electrical recording of (a programme or speech) for a later broadcast

music to rewrite (a piece of music) for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended; arrange

computing

to transfer (information) from one storage device, such as punched cards, to another, such as magnetic tape
to transfer (information) from a computer to an external storage device

(usually passive) biochem to convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, esp messenger RNA See also genetic code, translate (def. 6)

Derived forms of transcribe

transcribable, adjective transcriber, noun

Word Origin for transcribe

C16: from Latin transcrībere, from trans- + scrībere to write

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