transcript

English

Etymology

From Latin transcriptum, from transcribere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/
    • (US, Canada) IPA(key): [ˈtʃɹʷænskɹʷɪp̚t]
    • (UK) IPA(key): [ˈtʃɹʷanskɹʷɪp̚t]
    • Audio (Canada):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ænskɹɪpt

Noun

transcript (plural transcripts)

  1. Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
  2. A copy of any kind; an imitation.
    • 1676, Joseph Glanvill, Against Confidence in Philosophy (in Essays on Several Important Subjects)
      The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian.
  3. A written version of what was said orally
    the transcript of a trial
  4. (genetics) A molecule of RNA produced by transcription.
    • 2015 December 12, “Identification and Comparative Expression Profiles of Chemoreception Genes Revealed from Major Chemoreception Organs of the Rice Leaf Folder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Some transcripts were exclusively expressed in specific organs, such as female protarsus, whereas others were universally expressed, this varied expression profile may provide insights into the specific functions mediated by chemoreception proteins in insects.
  5. (education) An inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student alleged throughout a course.
    • 1982 April 11, Timothy McDarrah, “THE LETTER-GRADE CONTROVERSY”, in The New York Times[2]:
      The grading policy now specifies that all students enrolled before the spring 1982 semester in classes of less than 40 students will receive written evaluations, with either a nonletter grade (honors, pass or no credit) or a letter grade on their transcripts. Under the old system, the no-credit notation did not appear on the transcript.

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Further reading

Verb

transcript (third-person singular simple present transcripts, present participle transcripting, simple past and past participle transcripted)

  1. (rare) To write a transcript; to transcribe.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin transcriptus.

Noun

transcript n (plural transcripte)

  1. transcription
    Synonym: transcriere

Declension

Declension of transcript
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative transcript transcriptul transcripte transcriptele
genitive-dative transcript transcriptului transcripte transcriptelor
vocative transcriptule transcriptelor

References

  • transcript in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN