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• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tran=scrip=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

transcription, n. [Cf. F. transcription, L. transcriptio a transfer.].

•  The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.  [1913 Webster]
•  A copy; a transcript.  Walton.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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adaptation, amplification, apograph, arrangement, article, autograph, bilingual text, brainchild, carbon, carbon copy, cartridge, cassette, clavis, composition, computer printout, copy, crib, decipherment, decoding, disc, document, draft, duplication, edited version, edition, electrical transcription, engrossment, epigraph, essay, fair copy, faithful translation, fiche, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, free translation, gloss, glossary, harmonization, hectography, holograph, hymnal, hymnbook, initialing, inscription, instrumental score, instrumentation, interlinear, interlinear translation, intonation, key, letter, lettering, libretto, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, loose translation, lucubration, lute tablature, manifold, manuscript, matter, metaphrase, microcopy, microfiche, microform, mimeography, modulation, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, nonfiction, notation, opera, opera score, opus, orchestral score, orchestration, original, paper, paraphrase, parchment, part, penscript, phonograph record, phrasing, piano score, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, pony, preparation, printed matter, printout, production, reading matter, recension, record, recording, reduplication, reproduction, reprography, resolution, restatement, rewording, rubbing, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, setting, sheet music, short score, solution, songbook, songster, suspension, tablature, tape, tape cartridge, tape cassette, tape recording, tenor, text, the written word, tone painting, tracing, transcript, transfer, translation, transliteration, trot, typescript, version, vocal score, wax, wire recording, work, writing, written music, xerography

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Writing

N writing, chirography, stelography, cerography, penmanship, craftmanship, quill driving, typewriting, writing, manuscript, MS, literae scriptae, these presents, stroke of the pen, dash of the pen, coupe de plume, line, headline, pen and ink, letter, uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic, contraction, Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari, script, shorthand, stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy, secret writing, writing in cipher, cryptography, stenography, phonography, pasigraphy, Polygraphy, logography, copy, transcript, rescript, rough copy, fair copy, handwriting, signature, sign manual, autograph, monograph, holograph, hand, fist, calligraphy, good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand, cacography, griffonage, barbouillage, bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand, scribble, pattes de mouche, ill-formed letters, pothooks and hangers, stationery, pen, quill, goose quill, pencil, style, paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table, blackboard, ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well, typewriter, transcription, inscription, superscription, graphology, composition, authorship, cacoethes scribendi, graphoidea, graphomania, phrenoia, writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver, stenographer, typewriter, typist, writer for the press, writing, written, in writing, in black and white, under one's hand, uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical, currente calamo, pen in hand, audacter et sincere, le style est l'homme meme, nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill, scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons, that mighty instrument of little men, the pen became a clarion.

Imitation

N imitation, copying, transcription, repetition, duplication, reduplication, quotation, reproduction, mimeograph, xerox, facsimile, reprint, offprint, mockery, mimicry, simulation, impersonation, personation, representation, semblance, copy, assimilation, paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature, plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit, celluloid, imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime, copyist, copycat, plagiarist, pirate, imitated, mock, mimic, modelled after, molded on, paraphrastic, literal, imitative, secondhand, imitable, aping, apish, mimicking, literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot, exactly, precisely, like master like man, like - but oh! how different!, genius borrows nobly, pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks, quotation confesses inferiority, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Copy

N copy, facsimile, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, photo offset, electrotype, imitation, model, representation, adumbration, study, portrait, resemblance, duplicate, reproduction, cast, tracing, reflex, reflexion, reflection, shadow, echo, transcript, transcription, recording, scan, chip off the old block, reprint, new printing, rechauffe, apograph, fair copy, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase, derivative, derivation, modification, expansion, extension, revision, second edition, servile copy, servile imitation, plagiarism, counterfeit, fake, pasticcio, faithful, lifelike, close, conscientious, unoriginal, imitative, derivative.