Dictated vs Dictator - What's the difference?
dictated | dictator |
(dictate)
To order, command, control.
* 2001 , Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-78512-X), page 409,
To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
Originally, a magistrate without colleague in republican ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war
A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government
A tyrannical boss, or authority figure
A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk)
A ruler or , the highest level of authority.
As a verb dictated
is (dictate).As a noun dictator is
originally, a magistrate without colleague in republican ancient rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.dictated
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Verb
(head)dictate
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Verb
(dictat)- Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
- She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
- The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.
