transcribe
(verb)
verb
1. write out from speech, notes, etc.
- Transcribe the oral history of this tribe
Definition categories: communication
2. rewrite in a different script
Similar word(s): transliterate
Definition categories: communication, rewrite
3. rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
Definition categories: creation, accommodate, adapt
4. make a phonetic transcription of
- The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant
Definition categories: communication, rewrite
5. convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA
Definition categories: change, convert
Sentences with transcribe as a verb:
- The doctor made several recordings today which she will transcribe into medical reports tomorrow.