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[ noun ] (linguistics) something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation

Synonyms

written_text

Used in print

(H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)

There has been a tendency on the part of many American linguists to assume that a phonemic transcription will automatically be the best possible orthography and that the only real problem will then be the social one of securing acceptance .

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[ noun ] the act of making a record (especially an audio record)

Synonyms

recording

Examples

"she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth"

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[ noun ] (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA

Related terms

organic_process genetics

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[ noun ] (music) the act of arranging a piece of music
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[ noun ] (computer science) a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)

Related terms

recording

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