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Controlled vs Dictated - What's the difference?

controlled | dictated |

As verbs the difference between controlled and dictated

is that controlled is past tense of control while dictated is past tense of dictate.

As an adjective controlled

is inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.

controlled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.

    • Derived terms

    *

    Verb

    (head)
  • (control)

    • Derived terms

    * remote-controlled

    dictated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dictate)

    • dictate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An order or command.
    • I must obey the dictates of my conscience.

    Verb

    (dictat)
  • To order, command, control.
  • * 2001 , Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 409,
    • Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
  • To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
    • She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
    The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.

    Derived terms

    * dictation * dictator