Dictation

Definitions

1. Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
   countable, uncountable
2. An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
   countable, uncountable
3. The act of ordering or commanding.
   countable
4. Orders given in an overbearing manner.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Since I learned shorthand, I can take⟳ dictation at eighty words a minute.”

“We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.”

“...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.”

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