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Meaning of transcribe

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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}, {transcribe}]
      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, especially messenger RNA

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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