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[tran-skrahyb]

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verb (used with object), -scribed, -scrib·ing.

to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).

to make an exact copy of (a document, text, etc.).

to write out in another language or alphabet; translate or transliterate: to transcribe Chinese into English characters.

Phonetics. to represent (speech sounds) in written phonetic or phonemic symbols.

Radio. to make a recording of (a program, announcement, etc.) for broadcasting.

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Music. to arrange (a composition) for a medium other than that for which it was originally written.

Genetics. to effect genetic transcription of (a DNA molecule template).

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Origin:
1545–55; < Latin trānscrībere to copy off, equivalent to trāns- trans- + scrībere to write. See scribe

Related forms

tran·scrib·er, noun

mis·tran·scribe, verb (used with object), -scribed, -scrib·ing.

non·tran·scrib·ing, adjective

pre·tran·scribe, verb (used with object), -scribed, -scrib·ing.

re·tran·scribe, verb (used with object), -scribed, -scrib·ing.

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un·tran·scribed, adjective

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Transcribe is always a great word to know.

So is fricative. Does it mean:

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

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Example Sentences

There are many people out of work, perhaps you can hire one of them to transcribe the videos for you.

Well, the idea is not to record the audio of the presentation so that later you can transcribe what was said.

Individual systems can play chess or transcribe speech, but a general theory of machine intelligence remains elusive.

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There are many people out of work, perhaps you can hire one of them to transcribe the videos for you.

Well, the idea is not to record the audio of the presentation so that later you can transcribe what was said.

Individual systems can play chess or transcribe speech, but a general theory of machine intelligence remains elusive.

Each night, she would transcribe her notes onto carbon paper.

DocAzrt was kind enough to transcribe the scene for all to read.

Knight does not invent creatures of pure fantasy or transcribe his nightmares.

Our conversation was via phone, so the quotes below are paraphrased as best as my distracted brain could transcribe them.

Weiss included, now use computers to transcribe their notes.

The live mike also turns off easily, so the computer doesn't accidentally transcribe what you say to a nearby friend.

Cunningham would transcribe the songs, printing the best.

If you can, transcribe an episode and follow that format.

They transcribe your utterance and e-mail it to you.

We transcribe these interviews and identify concepts that might explain fishers' use of conservation technology.

Mediums who transcribe their conversations with the dead.

She perceived beauty but could not quite transcribe it.

Those who struggle with writing and spelling can dictate a research paper to a computer that will transcribe it.

Klein went on to transcribe his comedy routines in a series of popular record albums.

Schiller turned the hard-to-hear reels into audio the jurors could understand and the typists could transcribe.

Volunteers transcribe handwritten diary entries such as this one shown here.

It sings in the chapters where the author and his researchers transcribe the personal stories of the.

Have students transcribe information from their notebooks into a large chart or computer database for all ten countries.

But speech-recognition apps are designed to transcribe normal speech.

He would take notes on the tiny, fanned tablet at right and then transcribe and erase the.

Reich to let him transcribe the work for marimba and vibraphone, and made the recording that he uses in his performances.

The best software for that amount of data are atlasti, nivio, and maybe observer if you don't want to transcribe the interviews.

So as long as you understood the positioning of the letters in the different slots, you're able to transcribe a message.

Later, you get a call from the vet and transcribe results from your dog's lab.

It will even transcribe the voice mail into a text, although sometimes with funny results.

It can also record calls, customize greetings for particular callers and transcribe voice mail.

In other words, iLane's creators have wisely avoided trying to transcribe your spoken e-mail utterances into typed e-mail text.

He would later transcribe this impressive information into his commonplace book.

It's hard to transcribe what the average guy can do about what he saw, what he felt, but it still helped me through''.

It's hard to transcribe what the average guy can do about what he saw, what he felt, but it still helped me through".

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World English Dictionary

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 trans- + scrībere to write]

tran'scribable

—*adj*

tran'scriber

—n

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Word Origin & History

transcribe

1550s, from L. transcribere "to copy, write again in another place, write over, transfer," from trans- "over" + scribere "write" (see script). To do it poorly is to transcribble (1746). Transcript "written copy" is attested from late 13c., from L. transcriptum, neut. pp. of transcribere.

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"Allusion has been made to [Proust's] contempt for the literature that "describes," for the realists and naturalists worshipping the offal of experience, prostrate before the epidermis and the swift epilepsy, and content to transcribe the surface, the façade, behind which the Idea is prisoner."

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