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Definition of Dictation |
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Dictation
The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated. The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation. Related Definitions: Act, Also, An, As, Authoritative, Dictated, Dictating, Dictation, Even, Giving, Habit, His, In, Is, Manner, Of, Or, Overbearing, Practice, Prescribing, Speaking, That, The, To, Utterance, Was, Which, With |
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Dictation Quotations
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. Harriet Beecher Stowe What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation. Richard Russo If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write. Tommy Shaw If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. William Graham Sumner An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. Hudson Stuck |
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Dictation Translations
dictation in German is Diktat, Diktat, diktieren dictation in Italian is dettato, dettare dictation in Spanish is dictar, dictado dictation in Swedish is maktbud, diktamen, diktat |
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