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.

6. (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.

Derived terms

• primary transcript

Related terms

• transcribe
• transcription

Translations

something which has been transcribed

• Belarusian: транскрыпцыя (transkrypcyja)
• Finnish: puhtaaksi kirjoitettu teksti
• German: Abschrift (de) f, Transkript n
• Greek: αντίγραφο (el) n (antígrafo)
• Indonesian: transkrip (id), salinan (id), kopian
• Italian: testo (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: transkript n

  Nynorsk: transkript n

• Polish: transkrypcja (pl)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-sgrìobhadh m
• Spanish: transcripción (es) f
• Swedish: avskrift (sv)

copy of any kind; an imitation

• Finnish: kopio (fi), jäljennös (fi)
• Greek: αντίγραφο (el) n (antígrafo)
• Italian: copia (it) f
• Polish: odpis (pl)
• Russian: ко́пия (ru) f (kópija), дублика́т (ru) m (dublikát)
• Spanish: trasunto (es) m

written version of what was said orally

• Arabic: نُسْخَة f (nusḵa)
• Armenian: սղագրություն (hy) (sġagrutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副本 (zh) (fùběn), 抄本 (zh) (chāoběn), 全文 (zh) (quánwén)

• Danish: transkription c
• Finnish: puhtaaksi kirjoitettu teksti, litteroitu teksti, tekstitys (fi)
• French: transcription (fr) f
• German: Protokoll (de) n, Mitschrift (de) f
• Greek: απομαγνητοφώνηση (el) f (apomagnitofónisi)
• Hungarian: átirat (hu), jegyzőkönyv (hu)
• Italian: trascrizione (it) f
• Japanese: 写し (ja) (うつし. utsushi), トランスクリプト (toransukuriputo)
• Polish: transkrypcja (pl)
• Russian: стеногра́мма (ru) f (stenográmma), за́пись (ru) f (zápisʹ), текст (ru) m (tekst)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-sgrìobhadh m
• Spanish: transcripción (es) f

molecule of RNA produced by transcription

• French: transcrit (fr)
• Greek: μεταγραφή (el) f (metagrafí)
• Italian: trascritto (it), trascrizione (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: transkript n

  Nynorsk: transkript n

• Polish: transkrypt
• Portuguese: transcrito (pt)
• Russian: транскрипт (ru) m (transkript)
• Spanish: transcrito (es) m, transcripto (es) m

inventory of courses and grades

• Finnish: opintosuoritusote
• French: relevé de notes m
• German: Studienbuch (de) n, Studienakten f pl, Notenspiegel (de) m, Zeugnis (de) n
• Greek: αναλυτική βαθμολογία f (analytikí vathmología)
• Hungarian: leckekönyv (hu), index (hu)
• Polish: indeks (pl) m
• Russian: академическая справка f (akademičeskaja spravka)
• Spanish: expediente académico m, constancia (es) f, historial (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} exemplum n

Further reading

• “transcript”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “transcript”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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.