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dictation | x |

As a noun dictation

is (uncountable) dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

dictation

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
  • Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
  • (countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
  • 1908: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.
  • (countable) The act of ordering or commanding
  • 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.
  • (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner
  • His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation .

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----