transcribe Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb write out from speech, notes, etc.
   
   • Transcribe the oral history of this tribe
2. verb rewrite in a different script
   transliterate.
   
   • The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated
3. verb rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
   
4. verb make a phonetic transcription of
   
   • The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant
5. verb convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA
   

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