1. Write down spoken language or copy material into another written form.
2. Rewrite music for a different instrument or group of performers.
3. Produce an RNA copy from a DNA template.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- transcribe an interview
- transcribe a manuscript
On the page
The assistant transcribed the interview before coding its themes.
Word forms
- Base
- transcribe
- Past tense
- transcribed
- Past participle
- transcribed
- Present participle
- transcribing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- transcribe
- Present continuous
- am/is/are transcribing
- Present perfect
- have/has transcribed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been transcribing
- Past
- transcribed
- Past continuous
- was/were transcribing
- Past perfect
- had transcribed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been transcribing
- Future
- will transcribe
- Future continuous
- will be transcribing
- Future perfect
- will have transcribed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been transcribing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: transcribe; transcribes; transcribed; transcribed; transcribing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: transcribes.
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