Meaning & Definition of Transcribe in English

1. Write out from speech, notes, etc.

• "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"

2. Rewrite in a different script

• "The sanskrit text had to be transliterated"

3. Rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended

4. Make a phonetic transcription of

• "The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"

5. Convert the genetic information in (a strand of dna) into a strand of rna, especially messenger rna