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transcribe verb [ tranˈskrʌɪb ]

• put (thoughts, speech, or data) into written or printed form.
• "each interview was taped and transcribed"
• arrange (a piece of music) for a different instrument, voice, or group of these.
• "his largest early work was transcribed for organ"
• synthesize (RNA) using a template of existing DNA (or vice versa), so that the genetic information is copied.
• "polymerases transcribe it into a long RNA molecule"
Origin: mid 16th century (in the sense ‘make a copy in writing’): from Latin transcribere, from trans- ‘across’ + scribere ‘write’.


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