to dictate
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- verb
- /ˈdɪkˌteɪt/
:
dictar
- You can do dictation, so you can dictate text using speech recognition.
- dictate the spelling
- dictate the word
- dictate a letter
Like the vampire will dictate letters to him, right?
- Like the vampire will dictate letters to him, right?
- So I will often voice dictate first drafts and things like that.
- Was not private, he told us that she dictated all the message to him.
- You can do dictation, so you can dictate text using speech recognition.
- So basically the the man is just hearing and dictating.
Examples
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After completing the exercise, I choose students at random to dictate their written answers.
Academic text (1993) -
So doctors right now, they have to dictate notes, right?
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I had to dictate it into an email so I could send it...
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What do you think I came in for, to dictate a letter?
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I want to dictate a letter.
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This time I'm going to talk about software that allows you to dictate text to a Windows PC.
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Then he phoned the Chronicle to dictate the death notice, which would appear the following morning.
Fiction book (1998) -
For example, a student might dictate prose to a scribe or into speech-to-text software.
Academic text (2015) -
As a matter of fact, I've just dictated the dénouement of my new book, Death by Double-Fault.
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The teacher asked the students to dictate their essays for her to transcribe.
Surface Forms
Morphology
dictate = dict + ate
The verb is formed from Latin combining elements rather than from a familiar English base; knowing common English words will not make the 'say words aloud' sense immediately obvious.
Etymology
Dictate comes from the Latin root dict-, which means 'to say', and it was used for saying words aloud for someone else to write down. So, to dictate now means to speak words so another person can record them.