TRANSCRIBE

transitive verb (~d; transcribing) see: scribe Date: 1552 1. to make a written copy of, to make a copy of (dictated or recorded matter) in longhand or on a machine (as a typewriter), to paraphrase or summarize in writing, write down , record , 2. to represent (speech sounds) by means of phonetic symbols, translate 2a, to transfer (data) from one recording form to another, to record (as on magnetic tape) for later broadcast, to make a musical transcription of, to cause (as DNA) to undergo genetic transcription, ~r noun