Dictationnoun
(uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
‘Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.’;
Transcriptionnoun
The act or process of transcribing.
Dictationnoun
(countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
Transcriptionnoun
Something that has been transcribed, including:
Dictationnoun
(countable) The act of ordering or commanding.
Transcriptionnoun
(music) An adaptation of a composition.
‘These frame tale interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs.’;
Dictationnoun
(uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner.
‘His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.’;
Transcriptionnoun
(broadcasting) A recorded radio or television programme.
Dictationnoun
The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
‘It affords security against the dictation of laws.’;
Transcriptionnoun
(linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
Dictationnoun
The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Transcriptionnoun
(obsolete) A written document.
Dictationnoun
an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
Transcriptionnoun
(genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.
Dictationnoun
speech intended for reproduction in writing
Transcriptionnoun
The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.
Dictationnoun
matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage;
‘he mailed the dictation without bothering to read it’;
Transcriptionnoun
A copy; a transcript.
Transcriptionnoun
An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; - a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.
Transcriptionnoun
something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
Transcriptionnoun
(genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA
Transcriptionnoun
a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)
Transcriptionnoun
the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
Transcriptionnoun
the act of making a record (especially an audio record);
‘she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth’;
