extract vs transcribe

extract

verb
  • To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb). 

  • To select parts of a whole 

  • To determine (a root of a number). 

  • To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book. 

  • To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc. 

noun
  • A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue 

  • Something that is extracted or drawn out. 

  • Ancestry; descent. 

  • A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution. 

  • Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained 

  • A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract). 

  • A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation. 

transcribe

verb
  • To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to a written representation of it. 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. 

  • To represent speech by phonetic symbols. 

  • To transfer data from one recording medium to another. 

  • To cause DNA to undergo transcription. 

  • To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text. 

  • To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music. 

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