Dictate vs Stipulate - What's the difference?
dictate | stipulate |
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 require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
(botany) Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.
As verbs the difference between dictate and stipulate
is that dictate is to order, command, control while stipulate is to require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.As a noun dictate
is an order or command.As an adjective stipulate is
(botany) having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.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.