different between facsimile vs transcript

English

Etymology

From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fæk?s?m.?.li/

Noun

facsimile (plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

1. (countable) A copy or reproduction.
   • 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” in Twentieth Century Theories of Art (1990), ed. James Matheson Thompson, § VIII, 540:

     To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:facsimile.
2. (uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
4. The image sent by the machine itself.

Synonyms

• (copy): autotype, copy, reproduction
• (machine): facsimile machine, fax, fax machine
• (copy made by a facsimile): facsimile reproduction, fax

Translations

Verb

facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing or facsimiling, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)

1. (transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
2. (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.

Synonyms

• fax, telefax

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin transcriptum, from transcribere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?ansk??pt/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?t?ænsk??pt/

Noun

transcript (plural transcripts)

1. Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
2. A copy of any kind; an imitation.
   • 1676, Joseph Glanvill, Against Confidence in Philosophy (in Essays on Several Important Subjects)

3. A written version of what was said orally

4. (genetics) A sequence of RNA produced by transcription
6. (education) An inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student alleged throughout a course.

Related terms

• transcribe
• transcription

Translations

Further reading

• transcript in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• transcript in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

transcript (third-person singular simple present transcripts, present participle transcripting, simple past and past participle transcripted)

1. (rare) To write a transcript; to transcribe.