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say it: tran-SKRAHYB
transcribe is a verb meaning "write out from speech, notes, etc.". It is pronounced /tɹænˈskɹaɪb/ — tran-SKRAHYB. It carries 5 recorded senses.
rewrite in a different script
“The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated”
rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
music
make a phonetic transcription of
“The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant”
convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA
biochemistry
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for transcribe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.