transcription
Other forms: transcriptions
A transcription is the document made by copying down in writing something that you listen to, like audio tapes, an interview, or comments made during a meeting.
If you watch TV crime dramas, you’ve probably seen someone take a transcription while cops interview a suspect — that person is writing down all the things that are said. Transcription can also refer to the process of transcribing. If you’re a musician, you probably know that transcription can also describe adapting a piece of music for different instruments, like a cello transcription of a Beatles song.
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something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictationsynonyms: written texttypes:transliterationa transcription from one alphabet to anotherphonetic transcriptiona transcription intended to represent each distinct speech sound with a separate symboltype of:black and white, written communication, written languagecommunication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten)
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the act of arranging and adapting a piece of musicsynonyms: arrangement, arrangingtypes:rearrangementchanging an arrangementinstrumentation, orchestrationthe act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instrumentsorchestrationan arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effectmusical chairsa rearrangement that has no practical effect or significancereorderinga rearrangement in a different ordertransposition(electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductancetype of:
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the act of making a record (especially an audio record)synonyms: recordingtypes:lip sync, lip synch, lip synchronisation, lip synchronizationcombining audio and video recording in such a way that the sound is perfectly synchronized with the action that produced it; especially synchronizing the movements of a speaker's lips with the sound of his speechmasteringthe act of making a master recording from which copies can be madetype of:creating from raw materialsthe act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it
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a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)type of:recordinga storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded
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(genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA
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Learn these words derives from the Latin verb scribere, meaning "write."
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