Other forms: transcripts
A transcript is the official record of the courses you took and the grades you earned. Request a transcript, an official transcript, send your transcripts.
It is central to university applications, particularly in America, where an official transcript must come sealed from the institution. The other main sense is a written version of something spoken: a transcript of the interview, a court transcript. The verb is transcribe, and transcription is the process. Note that in biology transcription means something quite different — copying DNA into RNA — and shares only the metaphor of copying.
1nountranscriptThe official record of your courses and grades.
“The transcript has to come directly from the school.”
2nounversionA written version of something spoken.
“The transcript of the call runs to forty pages.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
transcript is a written record.
Latin transcriptum means something written across or over, from trans- plus scribere, to write. A transcript has always been a copy made by writing out, which is why the same word covers a grade record and a typed interview.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kreybʰ-
Latin
transcriptum
English, today
transcript
From Latin transcriptum, from transcribere.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA