Dictation vs Dictated - What's the difference?
dictation | dictated |
(uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
(countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
(countable) The act of ordering or commanding
(uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner
(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 a noun dictation
is (uncountable) dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.As a verb dictated is
(dictate).dictation
English
Noun
- Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
- 1908: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.
- 1852:' Lysander Spooner, ''An Essay on the Trial by Jury'' - ...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any ' dictation from the court, either as to law or fact.
- His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation .
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.