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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
transcribe
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fleck has transcribed Bach for the banjo.
▪ I record my business letters, and my secretary transcribes them.
▪ Secretaries were busy transcribing medical records.
▪ The conversation had been transcribed into phonetic script.
▪ The phone conversations were transcribed and sent to the FBI.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I also got really specific about the phrasing and how I could transcribe that on to the guitar.
▪ I go back, and this time I find my way into nondescript offices below ground where priests are transcribing notes.
▪ Not that Vea merely transcribed every memory and called it a novel.
▪ One copy should be used for transcribing your notes as previously discussed.
▪ Tens of thousands of pages of testimony were transcribed at a cost of $ 2. 50 a page.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transcribe

Transcribe \Tran*scribe"\ (tr[a^]n*skr[imac]b"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transcribed; p. pr. & vb. n. Transcribing.] [L. transcribere, transcriptum; trans across, over + scribere to write. See Scribe.] To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transcribe

1550s, from Latin transcribere "to copy, write again in another place, write over, transfer," from trans- "over" (see trans-) + scribere "write" (see script (n.)). To do it poorly is to transcribble (1746). Related: Transcribed; transcriber; transcribing.

Wiktionary
transcribe

vb. 1 To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to another representation. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text. 2 (context dictation English) To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text. 3 (context computing English) To transfer data from one recording medium to another. 4 (context music English) To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music. 5 (context biochemistry English) To cause DNA to undergo transcription. 6 (context linguistics English) To represent speech by phonetic symbols.

WordNet
transcribe
  1. v. 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" [syn: transliterate]

  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

Usage examples of "transcribe".

The anticodon gives it away: more nucleic acid, another RNA chain itself transcribed fromwhere else?

Tertullian or Lactantius employ their labors in exposing its falsehood and extravagance, they are obliged to transcribe the eloquence of Cicero or the wit of Lucian.

This objection, however, does not present an insuperable obstacle, because the revolutionary past, and the contemporary cooperative productive capacities through which the anthropological characteristics of the multitude are continually transcribed and reformulated, cannot help revealing a telos, a material affirmation of liberation.

Ressler devises a variant on the now notorious Waring Blendor technique to test the supposition that DNA information is transcribed and read like a linear tape.

The songs and love poems I composed, in which I declared my soul and transcribed its sentiments, depicted its burning desires, prolonged its memories, and re-created its yearnings!

And not only the dreams but the associations which the act of transcribing them induced.

The idea that, when we destroy words, what is left is neither mere noise nor arbitrary, pure elements, but other words, which, when pulverized in turn, will set free still other words - this idea is at once the negative of all the modem science of languages and the myth in which we now transcribe the most obscure and the most real powers of language.

They transcribe in space, not their ideas but sounds, and from those sounds they extract the common elements in order to form a small number of unique signs whose combination will enable them to form all possible syllables and words.

The royal library of the Fatimites consisted of one hundred thousand manuscripts, elegantly transcribed and splendidly bound, which were lent, without jealousy or avarice, to the students of Cairo.

LOT From preliminary transcribing, we know the scrolls include manuals of discipline, hymnbooks, Biblical commentaries, and apocalyptic writings.

After your father had first struck a deal with him in Paris he had transcribed all the details and sent them in a sealed envelope to his lawyer, with instructions that the contents be made public if Henri ordered it, or if he or Irena were ever harmed.

Were the loosest and freest conversation to be transcribed, there would immediately be observed something which connected it in all its transitions.

He began to play a Narvaez pavane that he was vastly proud of having transcribed for the lute.

Every evening when Astoria returns for her refreshment in the orgy, she delivers that composite recording to a Tyrin, who transcribes it onto the network.

To create these etexts, the Project expends considerable efforts to identify, transcribe and proofread public domain works.