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transcribe
[ tran-skrahyb ]
verb (used with object)
- 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).
transcribe
/ trænˈskraɪb /
verb
- 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
Derived Forms
- tranˈscriber, noun
- tranˈscribable, adjective
Other Words From
- tran·scriber noun
- mistran·scribe verb (used with object) mistranscribed mistranscribing
- nontran·scribing adjective
- pretran·scribe verb (used with object) pretranscribed pretranscribing
- retran·scribe verb (used with object) retranscribed retranscribing
- untran·scribed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of transcribe1
Word History and Origins
Origin of transcribe1
Example Sentences
With this new integration, Otter Assistant can now join and transcribe meetings on more platforms, even if the Otter user is not attending the meeting.
Students’ conversations and debates are recorded, transcribed and collated in a computing cloud that helps teachers tailor lesson plans based on how classmates are interacting with each other.
At the end of a trip, sit down and transcribe it into a journal, or just leave it as audio notes.
As in later jobs, he often communicated to staff with memos that were dictated into a recording device and transcribed by secretaries.
Another two years went by before the IRS started electronically transcribing the forms.
And we could make copies of these digital files on our computers and transcribe anywhere anytime we wanted.
Have one friend with the tendency to transcribe her day from breakfast to bed?
This glass is now lost, and I transcribe the verses from a detailed description of this chateau published at Paris.
I shall, therefore, transcribe from his book some of the most important remarks bearing on this matter.
We will only transcribe from it one phrase, as explicit as it is short.
One of her first tasks was to transcribe the just written fourth act of Prometheus Unbound.
A few days afterwards I received from Diderot the note I am going to transcribe.
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