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transcribe
What does transcribe mean?
transcribe (verb): write out from speech, notes, etc..
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use transcribe in a sentence?
- Transcribe the oral history of this tribe. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce transcribe?
/tɹænˈskɹaɪb/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does transcribe come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin trānscrībere (“to write again in another place, transcribe, copy”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to transcribe
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “transcribe” mean?
write out from speech, notes, etc.
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to stress, single out as important
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to change the form or structure of
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make sense of; assign a meaning to
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