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| a speech sound characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted passage in the vocal tract |
| any one of a variety of ingressive, usually implosive, speech sounds produced by suction occlusion and plosive or affricative release |
| 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 | |