transcribeverb [ T ]
uk/trænˈskraɪb/us/trænˈskraɪb/transcribe verb [ T ] (RECORD)
to record something written, spoken, or played by writing it down:
Recordings of conversations are transcribed and entered into the database.
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Writing & typing
- borrow
- chalk
- chronicle
- co-author
- compose
- copy
- creative writing
- enter
- fair sth out
- fire
- ghostwrite
- misspell
- orthography
- record
- run
- scrawl
- transcription
- typing
- write
- write sth up
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transcribe verb [ T ] (CHANGE)
to change a piece of writing or music into another form, for example into a different writing system or into music for different instruments:
Transcribing the Ethiopian text into the English alphabet was their first task.
The quintet had been transcribed for clarinet and piano.
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Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move on
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- reverse
- swing
- transfigure
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
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