Dictate vs Transcript - What's the difference?
dictate | transcript |
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.
Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
A copy of any kind; an imitation.
A written version of what was said orally; as, a transcript of a trial.
(genetics) A sequence of RNA produced by transcription
(education) An inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student alleged throughout a course.
As nouns the difference between dictate and transcript
is that dictate is an order or command while transcript is something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.As a verb dictate
is to order, command, control.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.