Supervise vs Dictate - What's the difference?
supervise | dictate |
To direct, manage, or oversee; to be in charge
*, chapter=19
, title= (obsolete) To look over so as to read; to peruse.
* 1590 , , IV. ii. 120:
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 supervise and dictate
is that supervise is while dictate is to order, command, control.As a noun dictate is
an order or command.supervise
English
Verb
(supervis)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
- Let me supervise the canzonet.
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.