Adapt vs Transcribe - What's the difference?
adapt | transcribe |
To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
To change oneself so as to be adapted.
To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to another representation. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.
(dictation) To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text.
(computing) To transfer data from one recording medium to another.
(music) To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
(biochemistry) To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
(linguistics) To represent speech by phonetic symbols.
As verbs the difference between adapt and transcribe
is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while transcribe is to convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to another representation. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.As an adjective adapt
is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.adapt
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Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
Derived terms
* adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptorReferences
*transcribe
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(Transcription)Verb
(transcrib)- The doctor made several recordings today which she will transcribe into medical reports tomorrow.
