Dictate vs Coordinate - What's the difference?
dictate | coordinate |
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.
Of the same rank; equal.
* Law
(mathematics, cartography) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.
Something that is equal to another thing.
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To synchronize (activities).
To match (objects, especially clothes).
As nouns the difference between dictate and coordinate
is that dictate is an order or command while coordinate is .As verbs the difference between dictate and coordinate
is that dictate is to order, command, control while coordinate is .As an adjective coordinate is
.dictate
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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 * dictatorcoordinate
English
Alternative forms
* * co-ordinateAdjective
(-)- whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many co-ordinate powers presiding over each country
