Dictate vs Nictate - What's the difference?
dictate | nictate |
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 wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.
*1909 , (Frederick Rolfe), Don Renato , Chatto & Windus 1963:
*:Indignantly interrogated as to whether he himself believed or exercised this abhominable and perabsurd superstition, he very gravely nictated' his dexter eyelid. And I ' nictated mine. And we both laughed.
*1955 , (Vladimir Nabokov), Lolita :
*:Gently I pressed my quivering sting along her rolling salty eyeball. ‘Goody-goody,’ she said nictating .
*2011 , Perry & Wharton, Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nematode Survival , p. 113:
*:In the absence of stimulation, C. elegans dauers are lethargic and generally immobile but nictate vigorously when disturbed.
As verbs the difference between dictate and nictate
is that dictate is to order, command, control while nictate is to wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.As a noun dictate
is an order or command.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.