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Definition: Transcribe |
TranscribeVerb1. 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". 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "transcribe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonym: TranscribeSynonym: transliterate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imitation | Verb: imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel. |
Writing | Verb: write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe; scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down; (record); sign; (attest); enface. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Transcribe |
| English words defined with "transcribe": Braille ♦ Exscribe ♦ Transcribing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "transcribe": braille coder, braille transcriber, BRAILLE TYPIST ♦ CHECK WRITER, choir leader, CHORAL DIRECTOR, court reporter ♦ dictating machine, dictation machine, DNA-dependent, DNA-dependent RNA polymerase ♦ law reporter ♦ NOTEREADER ♦ RNA pol ♦ SCHOOL SECRETARY, SHORTHAND REPORTER, STENOGRAPHER, PRINT SHOP, STENOTYPE OPERATOR, stenotype-machine operator, steno-typist, SUPERVISOR, STENO POOL. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "transcribe": Transumpt. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Bang; type; transcribe; transcription; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Transcribe" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.12% of the time. "Transcribe" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 83.12% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.58% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 77 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "transcribe": to transcribe. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
transcribe | 62 |
fast talk transcribe | 5 |
transcribe music | 4 |
medical transcribe | 3 |
home transcribe | 3 |
transcribe software | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "transcribe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | transkriptoj, regjistroj për ritransmetim, kopjoj (calk, copy, crib, duplicate, facsimile, imitate, pattern, replicate, transfer, write out), hedh në të pastër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كيف لحنا, مثل برموز صوتية, نسخ (copy, countermand, duplication, engross, mimeograph, reduplicate, reproduce, reproduction, supersede, transcription), سجل (book, calender, cut, enroll, enter, history, list, log, mark, mark down, note, put down, rap, record, register, registry, score, send in, set down, sign on, take notes, tally, write down), أملى (dictate), أذاع برنامجا, دون (below, beneath, inferior, mark, mark down, nick, notch, note, put down, record, set down, stick down, take down, take notes, tally, under, write, write down, write out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | резюмирам писмено, транскрибирам, написвам (make, make out, produce, put down, scratch, turn out, write, write out), преразказвам писмено, преписвам (copy, crib, write out), предавам запис, правя запис. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 抄录 (transcribed, Transcribing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | transkribovat, zachytit (take down), přepsat (overwrite, rewrite, transliterate), opsat (circumscribe, copy, copy out, express periphrastically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | at transskribere (to transcribe), at omskrive (to transcribe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | transporteren (transport), transcriberen (to transcribe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نقل کردن (Convey, Relate, Tell), اوانویسی کردن , رونویس کردن , رونوشت برداشتن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kopioida (copy, print). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | transcrire (to transcribe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | überschreiben (head, make over, overwrite, overwriting, sign over, to transcribe, transmit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεταγράφω (transfer, transliterate), αντιγράφω (cheat, copy, duplicate, pattern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lemásol (to copy, to engross, to reproduce, to transcribe, to write out, write out), átír (overwrite, rewrite, to transcribe, transliterate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menuliskan (inscribe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trascrivere (copy down, write down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 転写 , 写 (copy, describe, duplicate, photograph, picture, reproduce, trace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゃ (borrowing, copy, describe, duplicate, gauze, house, hut, inn, mansion, now, photograph, picture, reproduce, then, trace, well), て"しゃ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | screeu coip, mac-screeu (copy, transcript), aascreeu (copy, rewrite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anscribetray przepisać. (various references) trasladar (exemplify, overwrite), transcrever (copy, duplicate, overwrite), copiar (crib, imitate, overwrite, pattern). (various references) transcrie (copy, extend), copia (copy, copy down, counterfeit, crib, forge, imitate, plagiarize, print, reproduce). (various references) переписывать (copy, overwrite, overwrote, write out). (various references) prepisati (copy, prescribe, rewrite). (various references) transcribir (transliterate, write out). (various references) transkribera (to transcribe). (various references) uyarlamak (adapt), kopyasını yazmak, kopya etmek (copy, replicate, trace, trace over), kaydetmek (book, calendar, check in, Chronicle, enlist, enrol, enroll, enter, have smth. taped, inscribe, list, record, register, set down, tape, tape record, write down), fonetik işaretlerle yazmak, değişik kayıt sistemine aktarmak. (various references) транскрибувати, переписувати (copy, overwrite, rewrite, scribe, write out). (various references) adysgrifio (copy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | transcribere. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "transcribe": transcribed, transcriber, transcribers, transcribes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "transcribe": mistranscribe. (additional references) | |
Words containing "transcribe": mistranscribed, mistranscribes. (additional references) | |
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"Transcribe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: danscribe, transcrible. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "transcribe" (pronounced transkrī"b) |
| 6 | -n s k r ī" b | inscribe. |
| 5 | -s k r ī" b | ascribe, circumscribe, describe, oversubscribe, prescribe, proscribe, scribe, subscribe. |
| 3 | -r ī" b | bribe, tribe. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-n-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: bacterins, catbriers. | |
-2 letters: arbiters, bacterin, banister, barniest, brisance, cabinets, canister, carbines, catbrier, ceratins, cisterna, creatins, erratics, rarebits, restrain, retrains, scantier, strainer, tacrines, terrains, trainers. | |
-3 letters: acetins, anestri, antsier, arbiter, arcsine, arsenic, artsier, ascribe, baiters, banters, banties, barites, barnier, barrens, barrets, barters, basinet, bracers, brasier, briners, brisant, cabinet, canters, carbine, caribes, carnets, carnies, carries. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-n-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: transcribed, transcriber, transcribes. | |
+2 letters: carburetions, cerebrations, scatterbrain, transcribers. | |
+3 letters: mistranscribe, scatterbrains, subcontraries, tubocurarines. | |
+4 letters: decerebrations, mistranscribed, mistranscribes, rebroadcasting, recalibrations, relubrications, sabermetrician, scatterbrained. | |
+5 letters: bureaucratising, containerboards, overabstracting, prefabrications, sabermetricians. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 6E 73 63 72 69 62 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- -. ... -.-. .-. .. -... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01100011 01110010 01101001 01100010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a n s c r i b e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 006E 0073 0063 0072 0069 0062 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54846780856984756871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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