Dictated vs Written - What's the difference?
dictated | written |
(dictate)
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, relating or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written)
That was written.
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As verbs the difference between dictated and written
is that dictated is (dictate) while written is .As an adjective written is
of, relating or characteristic of writing (ie, of that which has been written).dictated
English
Verb
(head)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.
Derived terms
* dictation * dictatorwritten
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.
Derived terms
* unwritten, writtenness, unwrittennessQuotations
* * * * * * *Antonyms
* oral * verbalDerived terms
* hand-writtenVerb
(head)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,