单词 | transcribe |
释义 | transcribe (once / 649 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4v If someone asks you to transcribe something, they want you to listen to it and write down what was said, word for word. Speeches, interviews, and trials are often transcribed for records. From the Latin transcribere, which means “to copy, write over, or transfer,” the verb transcribe means just that: to write out a copy. You might want to transcribe a recording of an interview onto paper, or maybe you need to transcribe all the notes you collected from an important meeting. If you can remember that trans means “over” and that a scribe is a writer, you shouldn’t forget this word. Fun fact: to transcribe poorly is to transcribble. WORD FAMILYtranscribe: transcribed, transcriber, transcribes, transcribing, transcription+/transcriber: transcribers/transcription: transcriptions USAGE EXAMPLESFahy said, “It’s a big job to transcribe all that.” Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The search warrant, signed by a judge in August, requests all “audio recordings, transcribed records, text records and other data” from Bates’ Echo speaker. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) She was arrested in 1941 and imprisoned for seven months after being caught at a meeting where students were transcribing Allied radio broadcasts for dissemination. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) 1 v write out from speech, notes, etc. 2Transcribe the oral history of this tribe Hyper get down, put down, set down, write down put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc. v make a phonetic transcription of 3The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant Hyper rewrite write differently; alter the writing of 1v rewrite in a different script Syn|Hypo|Hyper transliterate Latinise, Latinize, Romanise, Romanize write in the Latin alphabet brailletranscribe in braille rewrite write differently; alter the writing of 2v rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended 4Hyper accommodate, adapt make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose v convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA Hyper convert change the nature, purpose, or function of something |
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