Hypertext Webster Gateway: "transcribe"
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) 1.7 (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 or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or
medium other than that originally intended
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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