Dictation
[dɪk'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [dɪk'teʃən]
Definition
(noun.) matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage; 'he signed and mailed his dictation without bothering to read it'.
(noun.) speech intended for reproduction in writing.
Typist: Louis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
(n.) The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Checker: Mortimer
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Prescription, direction.
Inputed by Augustine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Imperative, imperious, domineering, arbitrary
ANT:Condescending, affable, indulgent, modest, unassuming, suppliant, supplicatory,precatory, persuasive, insinuating
Checked by Groves
Examples
- Lydgate's anger rose: he was prepared to be indulgent towards feminine weakness, but not towards feminine dictation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But just now, there is no question of dictation; I mean to make you useful in another office. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I will write to your dictation, or I will copy and extract what you tell me: I can be of no other use. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- William Farren, neither to your dictation nor to that of any other will I submit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When taken from dictation, seventy-five words a minute may be written, and in special cases, when copying from memory, a speed of 150 words a minute has been maintained for a limited time. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Yet the writing and rewriting of names is as essential in most offices as the addition of figures or the dictation of correspondence. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I am very sorry I couldn't go on writing from dictation, Ma, sobbed Caddy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Letter writing and all kinds of dictation without the aid of a stenographer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was a shorthand writer, but seldom took down from Edison's dictation, unless it was on some technical subject that I did not understand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typed by Leigh