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transcription vs transliteration

transliteration vs transcription

transcription and transliteration both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
transcription Yes No No No
transliteration Yes No No No
As nouns, transliteration is a hyponym of transcription; that is, transliteration is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than transcription:
  • transcription: something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
  • transliteration: a transcription from one alphabet to another
Other hyponyms of transcription include phonetic transcription.
transcription (noun) transliteration (noun)
the act of making a record (especially an audio record) a transcription from one alphabet to another
the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)
something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
(genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA
Difference between transcription and transliteration

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