TRANSCRIBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transcribe mean? 

• TRANSCRIBE (verb)
  The verb TRANSCRIBE has 5 senses:

1. write out from speech, notes, etc.

2. rewrite in a different script

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

4. make a phonetic transcription of

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

  Familiarity information: TRANSCRIBE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSCRIBE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they transcribe    ... he / she / it transcribes   
Past simple: transcribed   
Past participle: transcribed   
-ing form: transcribing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write out from speech, notes, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Transcribe the oral history of this tribe

Hypernyms (to "transcribe" is one way to...):

get down; put down; set down; write down (put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

transcriber (someone who makes a written version of spoken material)

transcription (something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rewrite in a different script

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

transcribe; transliterate

Context example:

The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated

Hypernyms (to "transcribe" is one way to...):

rewrite (write differently; alter the writing of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transcribe"):

Latinise; Latinize; Romanise; Romanize (write in the Latin alphabet)

braille (transcribe in braille)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "transcribe" is one way to...):

accommodate; adapt (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose)

Domain category:

euphony; music (any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he transcribe his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

transcriber (a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make a phonetic transcription of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant

Hypernyms (to "transcribe" is one way to...):

rewrite (write differently; alter the writing of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

transcriber (someone who makes a written version of spoken material)

transcriber (someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "transcribe" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Domain category:

biochemistry (the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

transcription ((genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA)

 Context examples 

The result of any gain, loss or alteration of the sequences comprising a gene, including all sequences transcribed into RNA.

(Gene Mutation, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes RNA polymerase II elongation factor ELL protein, plays a role in the elongation of transcribed RNA.

(ELL wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Any induced mutation within a gene, including all sequences transcribed into RNA.

(Induced Gene Mutation, NCI Thesaurus)

A mutant form of the p21-ras protein transcribed from a mutant form of the oncogene K-ras.

(K-RAS ASP-12 Mutant Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

NER is targeted to actively transcribed regions of the genome.

(Nucleotide Excision Repair, NCI Thesaurus)

A molecule of RNA 200-17000 nucleotides in length that is transcribed by non-protein coding areas of DNA.

(LincRNA, NCI Thesaurus)

Proteins transcribed from the E1A region of adenovirus which are involved in positive regulation of transcription of the early genes.

(E1A Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is transcribed by the E1B region of the HadV-2 gene, which is involved in the regulation of E1B protein levels.

(E1B Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

I shall get my typewriter this very hour and begin transcribing.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

What can I do better than transcribe his narrative—head-lines and all?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)