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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (5)

1. write out from speech, notes, etc.;
- Example: "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"

2. rewrite in a different script;
- Example: "The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated"
[syn: transliterate, transcribe]

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

4. make a phonetic transcription of;
- Example: "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; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

transcribe
    v 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" [syn: transliterate, transcribe]
    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