Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of transcribing, or converting spoken (or sometimes signed) language to the written form.

  2. Something that has been transcribed, including:

    (countable, uncountable)An adaptation of a composition.

    These frame tale interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A recorded radio or television programme.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.

    Transkription

    транскри́пцияtranskrípcija

    транскри́пціяtranskrýpcija, звуко́писzvukópys

  5. (countable, uncountable)The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.

    Transkription

    транскри́пцияtranskrípcija

  6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A written document.

  7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of copywork.

More definitions
  • a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)
  • something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
  • (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
  • the act of making a record (especially an audio record)

Examples

5 sentences
  1. This site has a lack of transcriptions.

    Цьому сервісу бракує транскрипцій.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · Ahha · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. Complex transcriptions are difficult to read.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · rul · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. That transcription is wrong.

    ruЭта транскрипция неправильная.

    deDiese Umschrift ist falsch.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · zumley · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  4. Making it possible to select hiragana transcriptions with the mouse would be very helpful to people who haven't mastered hiragana, like myself.

    CC0 · Tatoeba · shekitten · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. The Vietnamese alphabet uses diacritical marks to produce an accurate transcription for tones despite the limitations of the Latin alphabet.

    deDas vietnamesische Alphabet verwendet diakritische Zeichen, um trotz der eingeschränkten Möglichkeiten des lateinischen Alphabets eine genaue Transkription der Töne zu ermöglichen.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · Adelpa · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

From Middle French transcription, or directly from Latin transcriptiōnem, from trānscrībō

From Middle French transcription, or directly from Latin transcriptiōnem, from trānscrībō (“transcribe”).

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Forms

plural: transcriptions
Singulartranscription
Pluraltranscriptions

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation:written text
  • the act of making a record (especially an audio record):recording
  • the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music:arrangementarranging

Word family

19 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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