All 3 Uses of
transcribe
in
Emma
- …much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her comprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed paper, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- — made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had transcribed it some pages ago already.†
Chpt 1.9-10 *
- Of course I have not transcribed beyond the first eight lines.†
Chpt 1.9-10
Definition:
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(transcribe) to make a copy of something in another form -- such as to put something said verbally in writing, or to translate something from one language to another, or to re-write music for another instrument