transcribe

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to rewrite in a different script or handwriting

   I transcribed the terrible writing into something easier to read.

2. 2
   verb

   to make a phonetic transcription of

   The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native speaker.

3. 3
   verb

   to write out from speech, notes, etc

   I transcribed everything that the lecturer said.

4. 4
   verb

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

   I transcribed the guitar solo into a beautiful piano piece.

Learned borrowing from Latin trānscrībere (“to write again in another place, transcribe, copy”).

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