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Dictate vs Cite - What's the difference?

dictate | cite |

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

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

    cite

    English

    Verb

    (cit)
  • 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= 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.}}
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * citation

    See also

    * attest * quote

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A citation.
  • We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.

    Anagrams

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