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transcribe

transc·ribe

UK/trænˈskɹaɪb/ US/træˈnskraɪb/ uncommon

verb

1.

write out from speech, notes, etc.

  • “Transcribe the oral history of this tribe”
2.

rewrite in a different script

  • “The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated”
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3.

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

4.

make a phonetic transcription of

  • “The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant”
5.

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

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin trānscrībere (“to write again in another place, transcribe, copy”).

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