Dictation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of dictating material to another for transcription.
  • n. The material so dictated.
  • n. An authoritative command or order.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
  • n. an activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
  • n. the act of ordering or commanding
  • n. orders given in an overbearing manner
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
  • n. The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act or practice of dictating, directing, or prescribing: as, he wrote the passage at the teacher's dictation.
  • n. Authoritative command or control; positive or arbitrary prescription, direction, or order: as, his dictation brought affairs into great confusion.
  • n. Synonyms Injunction, prescription, direction.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. speech intended for reproduction in writing
  • n. an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
  • n. matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage
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    speaking   
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    bidding    injunction    order    prescription   
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