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TRANSCRIBER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance
Synonyms:
adapter; arranger; transcriber
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("transcriber" is a kind of...):
musician (artist who composes or conducts music as a profession)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transcriber"):
orchestrator (an arranger who writes for orchestras)
Derivation:
transcribe (rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who makes a written version of spoken material
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("transcriber" is a kind of...):
writer (a person who is able to write and has written something)
Derivation:
transcribe (make a phonetic transcription of)
transcribe (write out from speech, notes, etc.)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("transcriber" is a kind of...):
phonetician (a specialist in phonetics)
Derivation:
transcribe (make a phonetic transcription of)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Someone who rewrites in a different script
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("transcriber" is a kind of...):
writer (a person who is able to write and has written something)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A person who translates written messages from one language to another
Synonyms:
transcriber; translator
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("transcriber" is a kind of...):
linguist; polyglot (a person who speaks more than one language)
