Dictionary Entry
transcribe
transcribe is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.
- 2verb
convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA
- 3verb
rewrite in a different script
"The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated"
Synonyms
- 4verb
make a phonetic transcription of
"The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"
- 5verb
write out from speech, notes, etc.
"Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"
- 6verb
rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
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