Thesaurus: transcription

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1. n. The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.
2. n. A copy; a transcript.
3. n. An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.
4. n. something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
5. n. (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
6. n. a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)
7. n. the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
8. n. the act of making a record (especially an audio record)
9. 1. The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions. 2. A copy; a transcript. Walton. 3. (Mus.) An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composes for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Listzt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.
10. An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument orvoice than that for which it was originally written, as thetranslating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even anorchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; anarrangement; -- a name applied by modern composes for the piano to amore or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrumentof a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Listzt'stranscriptions of songs by Schubert.
11. n:100 n. something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation n. (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 n. a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)