Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Transcribe \Tran*scribe"\ (tr[a^]n*skr[imac]b"), v. t. [imp. &
   p. p. {Transcribed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Transcribing}.] [L.
   transcribere, transcriptum; trans across, over + scribere to
   write. See {Scribe}.]
   To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to
   transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

Source : WordNet®

transcribe
     v 1: write out from speech, notes, etc.; "Transcribe the oral
          history of this tribe"
     2: rewrite in a different script; "The Sanskrit text had to be
        transliterated" [syn: {transliterate}]
     3: rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or
        medium other than that originally intended
     4: make a phonetic transcription of; "The anthropologist
        transcribed the sentences of the native informant"
     5: convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a
        strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA