Dictation vs. Ditation — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dictation and Ditation
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Dictation
The act or process of dictating material to another for transcription.
Ditation
(obsolete) The act of making rich; enrichment.
Dictation
The material so dictated.
Ditation
The act of making rich; enrichment.
Dictation
An authoritative command or order.
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Dictation
(uncountable) 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.
Dictation
(countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
Dictation
(countable) The act of ordering or commanding.
Dictation
(uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner.
His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Dictation
The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
It affords security against the dictation of laws.
Dictation
The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Dictation
An authoritative direction or instruction to do something
Dictation
Speech intended for reproduction in writing
Dictation
Matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage;
He mailed the dictation without bothering to read it
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