Dictation vs Maxim - What's the difference?
dictation | maxim |
(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
A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.
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As nouns the difference between dictation and maxim
is that dictation is dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words while maxim is a self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.As a proper noun Maxim is
the Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.dictation
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- 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 .
maxim
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(en noun)Wealth of Nations, page 768:
- In every age and country of the world men must have attended to the characters, designs, and actions of one another, and many reputable rules and maxims for the conduct of human life, must have been laid down and approved of by common consent.