Definition of "transcribe" []

• To make a full written or typewritten copy of (dictated material, for example). (verb-transitive)
• Computer Science To transfer (information) from one recording and storing system to another. (verb-transitive)
• Music To adapt or arrange (a composition) for a voice or instrument other than the original. (verb-transitive)
• Music To translate (a composition) from one notational system to another. (verb-transitive)
• Music To reduce (live or recorded music) to notation. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "As you want news I will now transcribe from a slate where I have kept memorandums, such occurrences as this poor L — y dead place affords."
• "With respect to her inability to transcribe the Latin words until these had been spelled for her, she explained that she was not at all familiar with Latin. ["
• "I love writing on other mediums because it forces me to transcribe, which is a great way to line edit while not only line editing."