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English Dictionary: transcribe	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
transcribe v write out from speech, notes, etc.; "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe" rewrite in a different script; "The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated" Synonym(s): transliterate, transcribe rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended make a phonetic transcription of; "The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant" convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Transcribe \Transcribe"\ (tr[acr]nskr[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.