'Transcribe' definitions:
Definition of 'transcribe'
(from WordNet)
verb
Write out from speech, notes, etc.; "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"
verb
Rewrite in a different script; "The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated" [syn: transliterate, transcribe]
verb
Rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
verb
Make a phonetic transcription of; "The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"
verb
Convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA
Definition of 'Transcribe'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'transcribe'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adapt,
- alphabet,
- alphabetize,
- arrange,
- capitalize,
- character,
- clone,
- compose,
- construe,
- copy,
- copy out,
- ditto,
- double,
- draft,
- draw up,
- dupe,
- duplicate,
- edit,
- enface,
- English,
- engross,
- facsimile,
- harmonize,
- hectograph,
- initial,
- inscribe,
- instrument,
- instrumentate,
- interpret,
- letter,
- make a recension,
- make an adaptation,
- make out,
- manifold,
- mark,
- melodize,
- microcopy,
- microfilm,
- mimeo,
- mimeograph,
- multigraph,
- musicalize,
- orchestrate,
- pen,
- pencil,
- Photostat,
- push the pen,
- put in writing,
- put to music,
- quadruplicate,
- recense,
- record,
- reduplicate,
- render,
- replicate,
- represent,
- reproduce,
- revise,
- rewrite,
- score,
- scribe,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- set,
- set to music,
- show,
- sign,
- spill ink,
- spoil paper,
- stat,
- superscribe,
- trace,
- translate,
- transliterate,
- transpose,
- triplicate,
- turn into,
- type,
- write,
- write down,
- write out,
- Xerox