单词 | transcribe |
释义 | transcribev. 1. a. transitive. To make a copy of (something) in writing; to copy out from an original; to write (a copy). Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > manner of writing > copying or transcribing > copy or transcribe [verb (transitive)] descrivea1382 copy1387 descrya1400 take1418 describea1513 exemplify1542 transcribe1552 escribe1558 copy1563 transcript1593 exscribe1608 transcrive1665 scriven1742 autograph1829 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Transcribe, transcribo. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Transcrire, to transcribe, to write or copie out. 1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 101 He could not tell whether all was transcrybed by his clerke. 1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 238 The enclosed leters..which I have desired your sonne for your beter satisfaction to transscribe. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. iii. 10 The primitive Christians were careful to transcribe copies of the Gospels. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. v. 134 The Writer's Apprentice receives a certain allowance in money for every page he transcribes. 1850 T. B. Macaulay in Life & Lett. (1913) II. xii. 266 Tomorrow I shall begin to transcribe again and to polish. b. Less exactly: To copy or reproduce the matter or statements of (a writing or book) without regard to the wording; to quote, cite. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > manner of writing > copying or transcribing > copy or transcribe [verb (transitive)] > cite or reproduce without regard to wording transcribea1634 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > embellish [verb (transitive)] > quote transcribea1634 quotea1680 a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 221 A Tradition (which I find not in Abdias, Bishop of Babylon; nor in any of the common Legends that I thinke were almost all transcribed from him). 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 50 Solinus who transcribed Plinie..hath in this point dissented from him. View more context for this quotation 1676 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 122 All which..makes me suspect he transcribed what he hath out of some writer, either Dutch, French, or Italian. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. Notes 285 I have sometimes used Madam Dacier as she has done others, in transcribing some of her Remarks without particularizing them. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick p. xix A few plain, easy Rules, chiefly transcribed from Dr. Cheyne. 1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors vi. 96 Which there is not room to transcribe here. c. Biology. To synthesize a nucleic acid (usually RNA) using an existing nucleic acid (usually DNA) as a template, so that the genetic information in the latter is copied. Const. into (with the template as object), from, off (with the new acid as object). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [verb (transitive)] > transcribe or translate translate1955 transcribe1962 the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [verb (transitive)] > genetic techniques transform1928 progeny-test1944 test-cross1950 translate1955 transcribe1962 1962 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 48 544 Only one strand of the DNA is transcribed as functional messenger-RNA. 1973 Sci. Amer. Apr. 34/3 Their chromosomes are in a greatly enlarged and uncoiled ‘lampbrush’ stage where we might be able to see structural details of DNA being transcribed into messenger RNA. 1979 D. R. Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach xvi. 517 When mRNA is transcribed off of DNA, the transcription process operates via the usual base-pairing. 1981 L. L. Mays Genetics ii. 65 Once RNA is transcribed from DNA, it is cut to its final size, modified in specific ways, and sent to its site of action. 2. a. To write out in other characters, to transliterate; to write out (a shorthand account) in ordinary ‘long-hand’; formerly also, to translate or render accurately in another language. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > translate [verb (transitive)] setc888 wendeOE turnc1175 writec1275 drawa1325 translatea1375 expound1377 takea1382 interpret1382 transpose1390 remue?a1400 renderc1400 put?a1425 to draw outa1450 reducec1450 compile1483 redige?1517 make1529 traducea1533 traduct1534 converta1538 do1561 to set out1597 transcribe1639 throw1652 metaphrase1868 versionize1874 society > communication > writing > manner of writing > transliteration > transliterate [verb (transitive)] transcribe1724 transliterate1835 1639 T. C[ary] (title) The Mirrour which Flatters not..Transcrib'd into English from the French [of La Serre],..And devoted to the well-disposed Readers. 1669 R. Russell in tr. J. Béguin Tyrocinium Chymicum To Rdr. It becomes every man, about to transcribe, or render the Works of another in his own native Tongue, neither to add any thing of his own, nor to omit of the Author's. 1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. 138 All the books..were transcrib'd, as is usually suppos'd, out of the Hebrew into the Chaldee Character. 1875 P. Le P. Renouf Egypt. Gram. 1 The omitted vowels are conventionally transcribed by the letter e. 1877 R. Browning (title) The Agamemnon of Æschylus transcribed by Robert Browning. b. Music. To adapt (a composition) for a voice or instrument other than that for which it was originally written. Also intransitive for passive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > compose [verb (transitive)] > arrange arrange1808 transcribe1891 intabulate1974 1891 in Cent. Dict. 1976 Gramophone June 61/1 Vocal ensemble music should transcribe well for brass. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] evenlecheOE resemble?c1400 imitate1534 sequest1567 succeed1577 act1599 pattern1601 similize1606 like1613 echoa1616 sample1616 ape1634 transcribe1646 copy1648 copy1649 mime1728 borrowa1847 to make likea1881 replicate1915 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 42 Thou and the lovely hopes that smile in thee Are ta'ne out, and transcrib'd by thy Great Mother. 1664 J. Evelyn in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. Ep. Ded. sig. a4 As many of those Illustrious Persons as by their large and magnificent Structures transcribe your Royal Example. 1709 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs (ed. 2) ii. 253 Such Love, and Meekness so Divine, I would transcribe and make them mine. a1729 J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) xv. 328 If we are as ready to imitate their Repentance, as we are to transcribe their Faults. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > inhere in or be an attribute of [verb (transitive)] > attribute or ascribe as an attribute > to a person > by transference transcribe1561 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (1634) iv. xiv. 634 (margin) Sacraments..be meanes whereby faith groweth, yet so that no power proper unto God be transcribed from him unto them. 1610 R. Abbot Old Way 15 The Papists..who haue transcribed the authority of Religion to mortall Men, to Doctors, and Fathers, and Councels. 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum ii. 34 As he used to transcribe to the Father whatsoever divine power was in him, so the Apostle doth not improperly transferre to the Father that which was Christs most proper work. 5. Roman Law. To transfer, assign, make over to another; = Latin transcrībere: cf. transcription n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > put under legal obligation [verb (transitive)] > transfer or replace obligation novate1611 transcribe1880 1880 [see transcribed adj. at Derivatives]. 6. a. To make a copy of (a gramophone recording) from a secondary source, not the master recording. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > make recording [verb (transitive)] > from secondary source transcribe1931 1931 Gramophone Dec. 264/1 The Philadelphians have recorded the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven complete on a single 12-in. disc and..thirty-two other discs..have been announced on which existing works..have been ‘transcribed’. b. Broadcasting. To record for subsequent reproduction; to broadcast in this form. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > put on or produce broadcast [verb (transitive)] > record for broadcasting transcribe1941 1941 W. Abbot Handbk. Broadcasting 245 These are inserted into transcribed programs or into a live program. Derivatives transcribed adj. /-ˈskraɪbd/ ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > [adjective] > transferred aliened1538 alienated1611 demised1682 transcribed1880 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iii. 226 A literal obligation is created by transcribed entries; and these are made in two ways,—either from thing to person, or from person to person. 1961 J. Updike in New Yorker 17 June 31/1 A transistor radio somewhere in the sand releases in a thin, apologetic gust the closing peal of a transcribed service. 1981 L. L. Mays Genetics ii. 57 Sometimes the transcribed RNA is the final product. tranˈscribing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > manner of writing > copying or transcribing > [noun] transumption1412 copying1580 transcription1598 transcripting1609 exscribinga1631 transcribing1700 1700 P. Lorrain in Pepys' Diary, etc. (1879) VI. 229 The transcribing of the Appendix. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 19. ⁋2 Small Quill-men and Transcribing Clerks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1552 |
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