Specify vs Dictate - What's the difference?
specify | dictate | Related terms |
To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
To include in a specification.
To bring about a specific result.
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.
Specify is a related term of dictate.
As verbs the difference between specify and dictate
is that specify is to state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition while dictate is to order, command, control.As a noun dictate is
an order or command.specify
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(en-verb)dictate
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(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.