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 transcribed";
   - transliterate
    
3. Make a phonetic transcription of
   "The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"
    
4. (music) rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
   "The guitarist transcribed the piano sonata for classical guitar"
    
5. (biochemistry) convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA
   "The enzyme transcribed the gene sequence into mRNA"

Derived forms: transcribed, transcribing, transcribes

Type of: accommodate, adapt, convert, get down, put down, rewrite, set down, write down

Encyclopedia: Transcribe