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Transcribing

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.

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transcribing

vb. (present participle of transcribe English)

Usage examples of "transcribing".

Without transcribing his declamatory sentences, which I have softened in the text, I shall observe, that in this passage the strange word exarentasmata is very properly changed for exanthemata by Carisius, the first editor Falcandus lived about the year 1190.

Some of the words Namid was transcribing - like Major General - were new words to her but it helped to watch him put them down.

She wished she didn't still have two or more hours of transcribing tapes ahead of her.

But upon transcribing these introductions, I discovered that neither of them were very balanced or impartial.

Eliminating the links to the references, and the subsequent effort that entails, has allowed the transcribing of the text to proceed at a greatly accelerated pace.

While it is certain that the latter would prove more expedient and see the online edition posted much sooner, transcribing the text, while more labor intensive, ensures a more accurate translation to HTML format.

While I understand that transcribing the text means it will take longer to post it, I believe that the more reliable translation is more than worth the additional effort.

The kid was hunched up in front of a small fire, fanatically transcribing that first Book of the Dead.

It was identical to the page the Daughter of Night had been transcribing when Narayan Singh interrupted her so they could go visit Soulcatcher.

The first, which the Daughter of Night had been transcribing, was now open to a page near the beginning.

I tried those variations which consist of transcribing in red marble a flayed Marsyas, portrayed heretofore only in white, going back thus into the world of painted figures.