| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
transcribe (trænˈskraɪb) ![]() | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to write, type, or print out fully from speech, notes, etc |
| 2. | to make a phonetic transcription of |
| 3. | to transliterate or translate |
| 4. | to make an electrical recording of (a programme or speech) for a later broadcast |
| 5. | music to rewrite (a piece of music) for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended; arrange |
| 6. | computing |
| a. to transfer (information) from one storage device, such as punched cards, to another, such as magnetic tape | |
| b. to transfer (information) from a computer to an external storage device | |
| 7. | (usually passive) biochem genetic code See also translate to convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, esp messenger RNA |
| [C16: from Latin transcrībere, from | |
| tran'scribable | |
| —adj | |
| tran'scriber | |
| —n | |