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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