The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word TRANSCRIBE
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More clues leading to the result TRANSCRIBE
- Copy, published, that is dividing family
- Copy articles about king being guarded by Cherokee?
- Record answer given by councillor entering race
- Copy note containing right answer with student’s help
- Record for sleepers perhaps – not one bed empty
- Not one to teach clerk to interpret
- Copy published after T S Eliot initially conceals act of plagiarism
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The straight part
We know that "Copy" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case copy = transcribe.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TRANSCRIBE mean?
TRANSCRIBE verb- 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.
- To transfer data from one recording medium to another.
- To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
- To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
- To represent speech by phonetic symbols.