Dictated vs Dictates - What's the difference?
dictated | dictates |
(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.
As verbs the difference between dictated and dictates
is that dictated is past tense of dictate while dictates is third-person singular of dictate.As a noun dictates is
plural of dictate.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.