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Transcribe

  1. verb

    rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended

  2. verb

    convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA

  3. verb

    write out from speech, notes, etc.

    “Transcribe the oral history of this tribe”

  4. verb

    make a phonetic transcription of

    “The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant”

Word family

transcribed · transcribing

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Word parts

scrib