transcript

[ tran-skript ]

noun

1. a written, typewritten, or printed copy; something transcribed or made by transcribing.
2. an exact copy or reproduction, especially one having an official status.
3. an official report supplied by a school on the record of an individual student, listing subjects studied, grades received, etc.
4. a form of something as rendered from one alphabet or language into another.

transcript

/ ˈtrænskrɪpt /

noun

1. a written, typed, or printed copy or manuscript made by transcribing
2. education an official record of a student's school progress and achievements
3. any reproduction or copy

Word History and Origins

Origin of transcript¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English, from Latin trānscrīptum “thing copied,” noun use of neuter of past participle of trānscrībere “to copy off,” literally, “to write across”; transcribe

Word History and Origins

Origin of transcript¹

C13: from Latin transcriptum , from transcrībere to transcribe

Example Sentences

The Dispatch’s Steven Hayes reported on that call the night it happened, publishing a transcript.

From Washington Post

Afterward, the host should email all the discussed points and conclusions, with the chat transcript, to all participants.

From Popular-Science

She devotes many pages to transcripts of conversations with the Nosies and to Naelyn’s testimony at a congressional hearing about Oak Flat in 2013.

From Outside Online

The judge also threatened to hold Hartman in contempt of court and jail her if she didn’t take them to the visit, according to a court transcript.

From ProPublica

When Kent went to locate the email, it had already been deleted, she said, according to a transcript of the interview provided by Clyburn.

From Washington Post

As the official transcript dryly notes, “No questions were asked.”

From The Daily Beast

A transcript and an audio recording of his remarks were obtained by The Daily Beast.

From The Daily Beast

Prosecutor Alessandro Leopizzi wasted no time in repeating the transcript to ask Schettino to confirm his words.

From The Daily Beast

Following are excerpts from the transcript of our conversation, which was conducted in French and is here translated into English.

From The Daily Beast

However, in his opposition, Haidak denied UMass' claim that he did not want the transcript included.

From The Daily Beast

She will feel herself to be under great obligations to you, Mr. Holmes, for so truthful a transcript of her 'absent boy.'

From Project Gutenberg

This transcript also establishes that the “Open Entrance” was penned when the author was in his twenty-third year.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a stenographic transcript of testimony in a case which had been lost in the trial court and was now going up on appeal.

From Project Gutenberg

But clearly, the transcript from Euripides, in the hands of Mr. Browning, undergoes a strange transformation.

From Project Gutenberg

The discourse of Pyrrhus with Cineas is only a transcript of the impatient ambition of the generality of mankind.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• manuscript
• transcription
• translation