transcribe has definitions from the fields of genetics,biochemistry,writing,phonetics,music
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[ verb ] (writing) write out from speech, notes, etc.

Examples

"Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Related to written literature , and often remaining temporarily frozen in written form , it loses its vitality when transcribed or removed from its oral existence .

Related terms

write_down transcription

2
[ verb ] (writing) rewrite in a different script

Synonyms

transliterate

Examples

"The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated"

Used in print

(Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)

In representing part of this new picture , I will be recounting some of my own personal experiences , reactions and judgments ; but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican_Churches and about the present religious state of England .

3
[ verb ] (music) rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended

Synonyms

adapt

Related terms

adapt arrange music

4
[ verb ] (phonetics,writing) make a phonetic transcription of

Examples

"The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"

Related terms

rewrite transcriber

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[ verb ] (genetics,biochemistry) convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, esp. messenger RNA; in biochemistry

Related terms

convert biochemistry

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