Dictation

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act or process of dictating material to another for transcription.
  • noun. The material so dictated.
  • noun. An authoritative command or order.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act or practice of dictating, directing, or prescribing: as, he wrote the passage at the teacher's dictation.
  • noun. Authoritative command or control; positive or arbitrary prescription, direction, or order: as, his dictation brought affairs into great confusion.
  • noun. Synonyms Injunction, prescription, direction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
  • noun. The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
  • noun. an activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
  • noun. the act of ordering or commanding
  • noun. orders given in an overbearing manner
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. speech intended for reproduction in writing
  • noun. an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
  • noun. matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage
  • Word Usage
    "I think computerized dictation is a wonderful advance, one that will benefit one of my children who has a vision impairment as well as all those people who didn't learn typing as I did."
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