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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: transcribe v 1: write out from speech, notes, etc.; "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe" 2: rewrite in a different script;"The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated" [syn: {transliterate}] 3: rewrite a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended; arrange [syn: {adapt}] 4: make a phonetic transcription of "The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant" 5: convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, esp. messenger RNA; in biochemistry
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