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

Derived forms: transcribes, transcribed, transcribing

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

Encyclopedia: Transcribe