transcript

English

Etymology

From Latin transcriptum, from transcribere.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/
• (Standard Southern British, Midlands, Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹan.skɹɪpt/
  • (England, sometimes) IPA^(key): [ˈtʃɹʷanskɹʷɪp̚t]
• (Scotland, Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾan.skɾɪpt/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/, (usually) [ˈtɹɛən.skɹɪpt]
  • (US, Canada, sometimes) IPA^(key): [ˈtʃɹʷænskɹʷɪp̚t]

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæːn.skɹɪpt/, [ˈtɹæːn.skɹɪpt] ~ [ˈtɹɛːn-] ~ [ˈtɹeːn-]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛn.skɹəpt/
• 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.
   • 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

     When he had finished she held out her hand for the transcript of the message that he had already made.

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 official certified record of a student's academic performance throughtout their course of study, including all courses taken and grades received.
   • 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

• metatranscript
• mistranscript
• multitranscript
• primary transcript
• retrotranscript
• selenotranscript
• transcriptase
• transcriptome
• transcriptomics
• transcriptosome

Related terms

• transcribe
• transcription

Translations

something which has been transcribed

• Belarusian: транскрыпцыя (transkrypcyja)
• Danish: afskrift (da) c
• Finnish: puhtaaksi kirjoitettu teksti
• German: Abschrift (de) f, Transkript n
• Greek: αντίγραφο (el) n (antígrafo)
• Hungarian: átirat (hu)
• 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), leirat (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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 成績單 / 成绩单 (zh) (chéngjìdān)

• Finnish: opintosuoritusote (fi)
• 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
• Romanian: situație școlară f
• Russian: академическая справка f (akademičeskaja spravka)
• Spanish: expediente / historial / transcript académico m, constancia académica f

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 Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “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. (transitive, rare, obsolete) To write a transcript; to transcribe.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin transcriptus.

Noun

transcript n (plural transcripte)

1. transcription

   Synonym: transcriere

Declension

	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

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English transcript.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾanskɾipt/ [ˈt̪ɾãns.kɾipt̪]
• Rhymes: -anskɾipt
• Syllabification: trans‧cript

Noun

transcript m (plural transcripts)

1. (US) transcript

   Synonyms: certificado, constancia

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

•  Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense