TRANSCRIBE


Meaning of TRANSCRIBE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ trænskraɪb ]

( transcribes, transcribing, transcribed)

1.

If you transcribe a speech or text, you write it out in a different form from the one in which it exists, for example by writing it out in full from notes or from a tape recording.

She is transcribing, from his dictation, the diaries of Simon Forman...

VERB : V n

2.

If you transcribe a piece of music for an instrument which is not the one for which it was originally written, you rewrite it so that it can be played on that instrument.

He gave up trying to write for the guitar and decided to transcribe the work for piano.

VERB : V n for n , also V n

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