English dictionary

transcribe

/tr/&/n'skr/aI/b/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

verb

write out from speech, notes, etc.

verb.communication

Examples
Transcribe the oral history of this tribe.

Source: WordNet 3.0
rewrite in a different script

verb.communication

Synonyms transliterate

Source: WordNet 3.0
rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended

verb.creation

Source: WordNet 3.0
make a phonetic transcription of

verb.communication

Examples
The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant.

Source: WordNet 3.0
convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA

verb.change

Source: WordNet 3.0
To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to <i>transcribe</i> Livy or Tacitus; to <i>transcribe</i> a letter.

verb

Source: webster1913