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Transcript vs Dictation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between transcript and dictation

is that transcript is something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy while dictation is (uncountable) dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.

transcript

English

Noun

(wikipedia transcript) (en noun)
  • Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
  • A copy of any kind; an imitation.
  • A written version of what was said orally; as, a transcript of a trial.
  • (genetics) A sequence of RNA produced by transcription
  • (education) An inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student alleged throughout a course.

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    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 .