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noun · 12 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /tɹænˈskɹɪpʃən/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɪpʃən
  • CMU ARPABET: T R AE2 N S K R IH1 P SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The act or process of transcribing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Something that has been transcribed, including:

An adaptation of a composition.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Something that has been transcribed, including:

A recorded radio or television programme.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: broadcasting, media

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Something that has been transcribed, including:

A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A written document.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

Synonym of copywork.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: copywork

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

the act of making a record (especially an audio record)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: recording

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: creating from raw materials

Narrower terms: lip synchronization, lip synchronisation, lip synch, lip sync, mastering

9

noun

Meaning 9

the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: arrangement, arranging

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: composing, composition

Narrower terms: rearrangement, orchestration, instrumentation

10

noun

Meaning 10

a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: recording

11

noun

Meaning 11

something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: written text

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: written communication, written language, black and white

Narrower terms: transliteration, phonetic transcription

12

noun

Meaning 12

(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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: organic process, biological process

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: transkriptio — in music
  • Finnish: nuotinnos — in music
  • Finnish: sovitus — in music
  • Hungarian: átirat — in music
  • Armenian: արտագրություն (artagrutʻyun) — recorded programme
  • Bulgarian: запис (zapis) — recorded programme
  • Finnish: tallenne — recorded programme
  • Hungarian: felvétel — recorded programme
  • Hungarian: felvett műsor/adás — recorded programme
  • Albanian: transkriptim — in linguistics
  • Arabic: كَرْشَنَة (karšana) — in linguistics
  • Arabic: نَقْصَوَة (naqṣawa) — in linguistics
  • Arabic: نَقْل صَوْتِيّ (naql ṣawtiyy) — in linguistics
  • Arabic: نَسْخ لَفْظِيّ (nasḵ lafẓiyy) — in linguistics
  • Armenian: տառադարձություն (taṙadarjutʻyun) — in linguistics
  • Asturian: trescripción — in linguistics
  • Azerbaijani: transkripsiya — in linguistics
  • Belarusian: транскры́пцыя (transkrýpcyja) — in linguistics
  • Bulgarian: транскри́пция (transkrípcija) — in linguistics
  • Burmese: အသံဖော်ပြခြင်း (a.samhpau-pra.hkrang:) — in linguistics
  • Burmese: ထိုက်အသံ (htuik-a.sam) — in linguistics
  • Catalan: transcripció — in linguistics
  • Chinese Mandarin: 音譯 /音译 (yīnyì) — in linguistics
  • Chinese Mandarin: 轉寫 /转写 (zhuǎnxiě) — in linguistics
  • Czech: transkripce — in linguistics
  • Danish: transskription — in linguistics
  • Dutch: transcriptie — in linguistics
  • Esperanto: transskribo — in linguistics
  • Estonian: transkriptsioon — in linguistics
  • Finnish: tarkekirjoitus — in linguistics
  • Finnish: transkriptio — in linguistics
  • French: transcription — in linguistics
  • Galician: transcrición — in linguistics
  • Georgian: ტრანსკრიფცია (ṭransḳripcia) — in linguistics
  • German: Transkription — in linguistics
  • Greek: μεταγραφή (metagrafí) — in linguistics
  • Hebrew: שַׁעְתּוּק (shiatúk) — in linguistics
  • Hindi: लिप्यंतरण (lipyantraṇ) — in linguistics
  • Hungarian: átírás — in linguistics
  • Hungarian: kiejtés szerinti / fonetikus átírás — in linguistics
  • Icelandic: hjóðfræðileg umritun — in linguistics
  • Indonesian: transkripsi — in linguistics
  • Italian: trascrizione — in linguistics
  • Japanese: 転写 (tensha) — in linguistics
  • Japanese: 音写 (onsha) — in linguistics
  • Kapampangan: pamanlikas-sulat — in linguistics
  • Kapampangan: pamanlikas — in linguistics
  • Kazakh: дыбыстаңба (dybystañba) — in linguistics
  • Kazakh: транскрипция (transkripsiä) — in linguistics
  • Khmer: អក្សរសព្ទ (ʼaksɑɑ sap) — in linguistics
  • Khmer: ការបកសំឡេង (kaa bɑɑk sɑmleeng) — in linguistics
  • Khmer: ការចម្លងសំឡេង (kaa cɑɑmlɑɑng sɑmleeng) — in linguistics
  • Korean: 전사 (jeonsa) — in linguistics
  • Northern Kurdish: transkrîpsyon — in linguistics
  • Kyrgyz: транскрипция (transkriptsiya) — in linguistics
  • Lao: ການຖອດສຽງ (kān thǭt sīang) — in linguistics
  • Lao: ການບັນທຶກສຽງ (kān ban thưk sīang) — in linguistics
  • Latvian: transkripcija — in linguistics
  • Lithuanian: transkripcija — in linguistics
  • Lithuanian: perraša — in linguistics
  • Macedonian: транскрипција (transkripcija) — in linguistics
  • Malay: transkripsi — in linguistics
  • Mongolian: транскрипци (transkripci) — in linguistics
  • Norwegian Bokmål: transkripsjon — in linguistics
  • Iranian Persian: تَرانَویسی (tarânavisi) — in linguistics
  • Iranian Persian: آوانَویسی (âvânavisi) — in linguistics
  • Polish: transkrypcja — in linguistics
  • Portuguese: transcrição — in linguistics
  • Romanian: transcriere — in linguistics
  • Russian: транскри́пция (transkrípcija) — in linguistics
  • Serbo-Croatian: транскрѝпција — in linguistics
  • Serbo-Croatian: transkrìpcija — in linguistics
  • Slovak: transkripcia — in linguistics
  • Slovene: transkripcija — in linguistics
  • Spanish: transcripción — in linguistics
  • Swedish: transkription — in linguistics
  • Tagalog: salinsulat — in linguistics
  • Tajik: транскриптсия (transkriptsiya) — in linguistics
  • Tajik: овонависӣ (ovonavisi) — in linguistics
  • Tajik: таронивишт (taronivišt) — in linguistics
  • Tajik: таронависӣ (taronavisi) — in linguistics
  • Thai: การถอดเสียง (gaan-tɔ̀ɔt-sǐiang) — in linguistics
  • Turkish: transkripsiyon — in linguistics
  • Turkish: kerşene — in linguistics
  • Turkish: çeviri yazı — in linguistics
  • Turkmen: transkripsiýa — in linguistics
  • Ukrainian: транскри́пція (transkrýpcija) — in linguistics
  • Ukrainian: звуко́пис (zvukópys) — in linguistics
  • Uyghur: ترانسكرىپسىيە (transkripsiye) — in linguistics
  • Uzbek: transkripsiya — in linguistics
  • Vietnamese: bản sao — in linguistics
  • Vietnamese: sự phiên âm — in linguistics
  • Bulgarian: транскри́пция (transkrípcija) — in genetics
  • Catalan: transcripció — in genetics
  • Chinese Cantonese: 轉錄 /转录 (zyun2 luk6) — in genetics
  • Chinese: 轉錄 /转录 (choán-lio̍k) — in genetics
  • Chinese Mandarin: 轉錄 /转录 (zhuǎnlù) — in genetics
  • Czech: transkripce — in genetics
  • Finnish: transkriptio — in genetics
  • Finnish: kopiointi — in genetics
  • French: transcription — in genetics
  • Galician: transcrición — in genetics
  • German: Transkription — in genetics
  • Hindi: प्रतिलेखन (pratilekhan) — in genetics
  • Hungarian: transzkripció — in genetics
  • Italian: trascrizione — in genetics
  • Japanese: 転写 (tensha) — in genetics
  • Korean: 전사 (jeonsa) — in genetics
  • Northern Kurdish: libergirtin — in genetics
  • Portuguese: transcrição — in genetics
  • Russian: транскри́пция (transkrípcija) — in genetics
  • Spanish: transcripción — in genetics
  • Swedish: transkription — in genetics
  • Vietnamese: phiên mã — in genetics
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