Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
TRANSCRIPTION
recording, transcription
(noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record); “she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth”
arrangement, arranging, transcription
(noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
transcription
(noun) a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)
transcription, written text
(noun) something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
transcription
(noun) (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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
transcription (countable and uncountable, plural transcriptions)
The act or process of transcribing.
Something that has been transcribed, including
(music) An adaptation of a composition.
(broadcasting) A recorded radio or television programme.
(linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
(obsolete) A written document.
(genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.
Coordinate terms
• musical dictation
Source: Wiktionary
Tran*scrip"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. transcription, L. transcriptio a transfer.]
1. The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.
2. A copy; a transcript. Walton.
3. (Mus.)
Definition: 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 composes 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, Listzt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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