transcribe

Verb

Meaning

To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

transliterate chronicle convert type record read write note enter copy register render pen interpret reproduce
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Antonyms

create remove delete erase strike out expunging
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Hypernyms

convert accommodate adapt rewrite put down write down

Hyponyms

braille latinize romanize latinise romanise

Related terms

transcription translate scribe transliterate

Derivatives

transcribed transcribing

Examples

The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cézanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity. Clement Greenberg

It seems to me perfectly obvious when my enemies, my friends and the public in general pretend not to understand the meaning of the images that arise arid that I transcribe in my pictures, How can you expect then to understand them when I myself, who am their "maker", understand them as little? Salvador Dalí

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like. David Sedaris

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them. Albert Brooks

I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time. Anita Baker

In 1974, the English archaeologist Sir Walter Wilkinson discovered another manuscript, this time written in three languages: Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin...On 30 November 2011, I received a copy of the text that he had mentioned at that first meeting. I transcribe it here. Paulo Coelho

Close letter words and terms

transcribability transcribable transcribbler transcribed transcribed region transcriber