Dictate vs Cite - What's the difference?
dictate | cite |
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,
To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
(informal) A citation.
As nouns the difference between dictate and cite
is that dictate is an order or command while cite is wedge, short spear or stick.As a verb dictate
is to order, command, control.As an adjective cite is
full, brim-full.dictate
English
Verb
(dictat)- Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
- She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
- The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.
Derived terms
* dictation * dictatorcite
English
Verb
(cit)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}
Derived terms
* citationSee also
* attest * quoteNoun
(en noun)- We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.