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転写 — meaning in English

tensha

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English meaning

  • transcribe verb To write out in full what is said in speech or on a recording.
  • transcription noun The act of converting speech or recorded sound into written text.

Senses

転写 is used for these senses in English:

  • transcription (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
  • transcription (genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.

transcribe — full definition

  1. verb To write out in full what is said in speech or on a recording.
  2. verb To copy something out in written form, or to convert it into another script or notation.
  3. verb In biology, to produce a strand of RNA using a strand of DNA as the template.
  4. verb To arrange a piece of music for a different instrument or voice from the one it was written for.

transcription — full definition

  1. noun The act of converting speech or recorded sound into written text.
  2. noun (biology) The process by which a cell copies DNA into RNA.
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