English
Pronunciation
(US) IPA: /dɪk�teɪ��n/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪ��n|-eɪ��n
Noun
dictation
#dictate|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.
#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.
#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.
#orders given in an overbearing manner
#:His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Translations
trans-top|the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
Hebrew: ��ת�� (hakhtava) f
Icelandic: upplestur m
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trans-top|an activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
Hebrew: ��ת�� (hakhtava) f
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trans-top|the act of ordering or commanding
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trans-bottom
trans-top|orders given in an overbearing manner
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Finnish: sanelu (1), määräys (2), käsky (2)
Italian: dettato (1,2,3)
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