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Definition of dictate in English: dictateverb dɪkˈteɪt [with object]1State or order authoritatively. the tsar's attempts to dictate policy no object that doesn't give you the right to dictate to me Example sentencesExamples - We no longer practice in a paternalistic system where medical authorities dictate to patients what is in their interests.
- The bus operators have, like any good businessmen, chosen to run the services from where their customers want to catch them rather than trying to dictate to customers where they should catch them.
- What's important is that we not try to dictate to companies how they run their labor policies in this country.
- According to Wellington's way of thinking, Tory MPs had no business trying to dictate to him what his policies should be.
- The way media works is not as a monolith in which one decision is dictated from central command.
- The school did not dictate what themes had to be followed or depicted.
- In short, BT can effectively dictate its terms to those wishing to use its local loop.
- Anything else smacks of ‘elitism’, the paternalist attempt by some to dictate to others what they ought to want.
- I didn't let other people dictate to me what path to follow.
- But the drastic measures were attacked last night as the latest attempt to dictate to parents how they should bring up their children.
- But Ms O'Sullivan said it is not Mr Dempsey's place to dictate to teachers the format of their conferences.
- I don't want to dictate to smokers, but I also don't feel that my other customers and staff should have to inhale it.
- We don't want to dictate to them what to do or what not to do.
- But I am a whole and complete person, and I cannot let those people dictate to me what role I'm supposed to play in society.
- What state laws give them the authority to create their own rules and dictate to property owners what they can and cannot do?
- It's one thing to ask a correspondent to agree to terms of confidentiality before they read the message, but to dictate the terms afterwards?
- Truth, justice and the American way rely on preventing any single group dictating to the rest.
- In January the newspaper unions ended the walkout on terms largely dictated by management.
- The simple fact of the matter is that unionism is not in a position to dictate its own terms and it hasn't been in that position for almost forty years.
- So it certainly fits with the Government's modus operandi, which is to have a Minister to control and dictate everything, and, where he cannot do that, to ignore a commission.
Synonyms give orders to, order about/around, boss (about/around), impose one's will on, lord it over, bully, domineer, dominate, tyrannize, oppress, ride roughshod over, control, pressurize, browbeat lay down the law, act the tin god informal push around/about, bulldoze, walk all over call the shots, throw one's weight about/around - 1.1 Control or decisively affect; determine.
choice is often dictated by availability no object a review process can be changed as circumstances dictate Example sentencesExamples - Hard facts of terrain, distance, and a determined enemy would dictate military progress or the lack of it.
- All the more reason to allow market forces, rather than misguided and punitive regulation, to dictate the choices available to consumers.
- Such capital spending was way above the levels dictated by its economic determinants like the capacity utilization rate.
- It dictates the choice of candidates, influences the rise and fall of politicians and determines who will be the leader.
- How the qualifier draw treats you can often dictate how a team recovers from defeat in the championship.
- That makes editors toe the line dictated by interests financially controlling the publication.
- I would hate to believe that this agenda is dictated by racist considerations or the colour of the skin.
- The decisions that directly determine our present and dictate our future are made elsewhere.
- Rules dictate when, where, against whom, and how we use force.
- Today the forces that affect our lifestyles are dictated by a complex combination of international events and trends.
- The change in velocity is understood to occur over time, as dictated by logic.
- Joint doctrine is authoritative and followed except when, in the commander's judgment, exceptional circumstances dictate otherwise.
- There are rules which dictate where tiles may be placed, but these are quite liberal and not very restrictive.
- These results suggest that the lens dictates craniofacial morphology by controlling eye growth.
- He's enabling the Bears to control the ball and dictate the tempo of games.
- In fact, the establishment of a standard of review often dictates the rule of decision in a case, which is beyond Congress's constitutional power.
- Of course military units must sometimes merge or be disbanded, as circumstances dictate; on this occasion, however, there is no such imperative.
- His attitude is dictated to some extent by his admiration for the work of manager Mick McCarthy.
- In politics, even what may appear to be insanity is ultimately dictated by a definite objective logic.
- Soviet policy was dictated by conventional considerations of national defense, not international revolutionary strategy.
Synonyms prescribe, lay down, impose, set down, set out order, command, decree, ordain, direct, pronounce, enjoin, promulgate determine, decide, influence, affect, choose, control, govern
2Say or read aloud (words to be typed, written down, or recorded on tape) I have four letters to dictate Example sentencesExamples - While using ‘robotic talk’ to dictate one word at a time the software tended to interpret words and syntax incorrectly.
- According to Roux, Parnes submitted an invoice using words dictated by Roux.
- Milton's blindness forced him to dictate to an amanuensis.
- ‘I could dictate the words to you,’ he offered, sticking out a hand to receive the book.
- The kindergarten revolves around ‘stories’ that children dictate to teachers about their experiences and then take home.
- Unique words found in the user's documents are added to the vocabulary files, and then the program asks the user to dictate these new words.
- It was not for me to dictate words to be uttered by the heroes and heroines of the Minerva Magazine, contrary to the theories of the editor thereof.
- We are told that Jeremiah dictated his words to Baruch, his scribal secretary.
- His nurse took pity on him and agreed to write a letter for Daniel as he dictated the words, the last letter from a dying soldier to his family.
- During each presentation a running account of the male's response was dictated into a tape recorder.
- The basis of Islam is the belief that Mohammed regularly went into a state of trance and heard a voice dictating Allah's own words.
- I don't have anything to file, I've never dictated a word, and so far, I try very hard to write this column by myself.
- In those cases, the reporters wrote down or dictated into a tape recorder everything they could remember from the interview.
- For those who believe God dictated every word in the Bible, these laws should be as valid today as they ever were.
- At one point, she called a family meeting to discuss repeated requests for assistance, but before they gathered, she asked God to dictate the words she would use.
- The Muslims were enraged and did not want to accede to Suhayl's demand, but the Prophet commanded Ali to write as Suhayl wished, then continued to dictate the terms of the treaty to him.
- "Rather bizarre, this room, " I dictated into my tape recorder.
- Each word was dictated, then said in a sentence, then spoken again for the child to print.
Synonyms say aloud, utter, speak, read out, read aloud, recite
noun ˈdɪkteɪt usually dictatesAn order or principle that must be obeyed. Example sentencesExamples - He has never fallen victim to the dictates of fashion or studio demands.
- Local councils such as Lewisham would be jumping to the demands of European dictates.
- Did it have to do with the dominance of the fashion advertisers and their dictates?
- In my former professional life as a doctor, for example, I was obliged more and more to obey the dictates of ministers, rather than those of my medical beliefs.
- Obeying the dictates of modesty, they usually preferred discreet euphemisms or a blushing silence.
- The requirements include very specific dictates on what information must be provided and when, how many course hours must be taken, and how those hours must be completed.
- There is no formal training or education required for the role, the only criterion being that the individual must live according to the dictates of the church.
- In any case, there is only one never changing rule: all news publication must obey the dictates of the Propaganda Department.
- Classic structural contingency theory holds that the structure of an organization must match the dictates of the environment.
- Surely it is unfair to say that marriage may be reformed for the sake of anyone and everyone except homosexuals, who must respect the dictates of tradition.
- How unpopular would a president need to be before his unpopularity made it safe to follow the dictates of your own principles?
- In obeying the laws of a liberal constitution, we obey the dictates of reason, and to be compelled by reason is to be free.
- You should enjoy a most fortunate and fulfilling term by obeying the dictates of your instinct.
- If it were up to Henkel, only those parties strictly obeying the dictates of the business world would have a right to exist.
- However, they were only able to articulate that opposition to the dictates of the employers must be organised on an international level.
- Whether it is news, science, religion, or education, if it is happening on TV, it must follow the dictates of entertainment.
- We can all (we think) choose our own individualistic styles, scornfully ignoring the dictates of Paris and fashion magazines.
- Rice continued the US insistence that Argentina obey the dictates of the IMF.
- The keepsakes also revealed the tension experienced by members of the upper classes who desired to display their wealth while appearing to obey the dictates of Christian piety.
- They maintain that the veil enables them to become the observers and not the observed; that it liberates them from the dictates of the fashion industry and the demands of the beauty myth.
Synonyms order, command, decree, edict, rule, ruling, ordinance, dictum, directive, direction, instruction, pronouncement, mandate, requirement, stipulation, injunction, ultimatum, demand, exhortation (dictates), bidding, request, charge, promulgation in Tsarist Russia ukase in Spanish-speaking countries pronunciamento informal say-so literary behest archaic hest rare rescript principle, guiding principle, code, canon, law, rule, regulation, precept, dictum, axiom, maxim
Origin Late 16th century (in sense 2 of the verb): from Latin dictat- 'dictated', from the verb dictare. verdict from Middle English: After the Norman Conquest, French became the language of the law in England and many French legal terms made their way into English. Verdict came immediately from French, but goes back to Latin verus ‘true’, source also of verify (Middle English), veritable (Late Middle English), and very (Middle English), and dicere ‘to say’, from which addict (mid 16th century) originally ‘assigned by decree’ and so bound to something; condition (Middle English) speaking with, agreement; contradiction (Late Middle English) ‘speaking against’; dictate (early 17th century); predict (late 16th century) ‘speaking in advance’; and numerous other words derive.
Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight Definition of dictate in US English: dictateverb [with object]1Lay down authoritatively; prescribe. the tsar's attempts to dictate policy no object that doesn't give you the right to dictate to me Example sentencesExamples - What's important is that we not try to dictate to companies how they run their labor policies in this country.
- What state laws give them the authority to create their own rules and dictate to property owners what they can and cannot do?
- The bus operators have, like any good businessmen, chosen to run the services from where their customers want to catch them rather than trying to dictate to customers where they should catch them.
- It's one thing to ask a correspondent to agree to terms of confidentiality before they read the message, but to dictate the terms afterwards?
- I didn't let other people dictate to me what path to follow.
- The school did not dictate what themes had to be followed or depicted.
- We don't want to dictate to them what to do or what not to do.
- Truth, justice and the American way rely on preventing any single group dictating to the rest.
- So it certainly fits with the Government's modus operandi, which is to have a Minister to control and dictate everything, and, where he cannot do that, to ignore a commission.
- According to Wellington's way of thinking, Tory MPs had no business trying to dictate to him what his policies should be.
- We no longer practice in a paternalistic system where medical authorities dictate to patients what is in their interests.
- But the drastic measures were attacked last night as the latest attempt to dictate to parents how they should bring up their children.
- The way media works is not as a monolith in which one decision is dictated from central command.
- In short, BT can effectively dictate its terms to those wishing to use its local loop.
- In January the newspaper unions ended the walkout on terms largely dictated by management.
- I don't want to dictate to smokers, but I also don't feel that my other customers and staff should have to inhale it.
- But Ms O'Sullivan said it is not Mr Dempsey's place to dictate to teachers the format of their conferences.
- Anything else smacks of ‘elitism’, the paternalist attempt by some to dictate to others what they ought to want.
- But I am a whole and complete person, and I cannot let those people dictate to me what role I'm supposed to play in society.
- The simple fact of the matter is that unionism is not in a position to dictate its own terms and it hasn't been in that position for almost forty years.
Synonyms give orders to, order about, order around, boss, boss about, boss around, impose one's will on, lord it over, bully, domineer, dominate, tyrannize, oppress, ride roughshod over, control, pressurize, browbeat - 1.1 Control or decisively affect; determine.
choice is often dictated by availability no object a review process can be changed as circumstances dictate Example sentencesExamples - In politics, even what may appear to be insanity is ultimately dictated by a definite objective logic.
- Soviet policy was dictated by conventional considerations of national defense, not international revolutionary strategy.
- The decisions that directly determine our present and dictate our future are made elsewhere.
- How the qualifier draw treats you can often dictate how a team recovers from defeat in the championship.
- Joint doctrine is authoritative and followed except when, in the commander's judgment, exceptional circumstances dictate otherwise.
- All the more reason to allow market forces, rather than misguided and punitive regulation, to dictate the choices available to consumers.
- Such capital spending was way above the levels dictated by its economic determinants like the capacity utilization rate.
- He's enabling the Bears to control the ball and dictate the tempo of games.
- That makes editors toe the line dictated by interests financially controlling the publication.
- Rules dictate when, where, against whom, and how we use force.
- There are rules which dictate where tiles may be placed, but these are quite liberal and not very restrictive.
- I would hate to believe that this agenda is dictated by racist considerations or the colour of the skin.
- These results suggest that the lens dictates craniofacial morphology by controlling eye growth.
- It dictates the choice of candidates, influences the rise and fall of politicians and determines who will be the leader.
- Hard facts of terrain, distance, and a determined enemy would dictate military progress or the lack of it.
- Of course military units must sometimes merge or be disbanded, as circumstances dictate; on this occasion, however, there is no such imperative.
- His attitude is dictated to some extent by his admiration for the work of manager Mick McCarthy.
- In fact, the establishment of a standard of review often dictates the rule of decision in a case, which is beyond Congress's constitutional power.
- Today the forces that affect our lifestyles are dictated by a complex combination of international events and trends.
- The change in velocity is understood to occur over time, as dictated by logic.
Synonyms prescribe, lay down, impose, set down, set out
2Say or read aloud (words to be typed, written down, or recorded on tape) I have four letters to dictate Example sentencesExamples - Each word was dictated, then said in a sentence, then spoken again for the child to print.
- The basis of Islam is the belief that Mohammed regularly went into a state of trance and heard a voice dictating Allah's own words.
- We are told that Jeremiah dictated his words to Baruch, his scribal secretary.
- While using ‘robotic talk’ to dictate one word at a time the software tended to interpret words and syntax incorrectly.
- ‘I could dictate the words to you,’ he offered, sticking out a hand to receive the book.
- During each presentation a running account of the male's response was dictated into a tape recorder.
- Unique words found in the user's documents are added to the vocabulary files, and then the program asks the user to dictate these new words.
- At one point, she called a family meeting to discuss repeated requests for assistance, but before they gathered, she asked God to dictate the words she would use.
- According to Roux, Parnes submitted an invoice using words dictated by Roux.
- For those who believe God dictated every word in the Bible, these laws should be as valid today as they ever were.
- His nurse took pity on him and agreed to write a letter for Daniel as he dictated the words, the last letter from a dying soldier to his family.
- "Rather bizarre, this room, " I dictated into my tape recorder.
- Milton's blindness forced him to dictate to an amanuensis.
- It was not for me to dictate words to be uttered by the heroes and heroines of the Minerva Magazine, contrary to the theories of the editor thereof.
- The kindergarten revolves around ‘stories’ that children dictate to teachers about their experiences and then take home.
- In those cases, the reporters wrote down or dictated into a tape recorder everything they could remember from the interview.
- The Muslims were enraged and did not want to accede to Suhayl's demand, but the Prophet commanded Ali to write as Suhayl wished, then continued to dictate the terms of the treaty to him.
- I don't have anything to file, I've never dictated a word, and so far, I try very hard to write this column by myself.
Synonyms say aloud, utter, speak, read out, read aloud, recite
noun usually dictatesAn order or principle that must be obeyed. Example sentencesExamples - Surely it is unfair to say that marriage may be reformed for the sake of anyone and everyone except homosexuals, who must respect the dictates of tradition.
- Rice continued the US insistence that Argentina obey the dictates of the IMF.
- You should enjoy a most fortunate and fulfilling term by obeying the dictates of your instinct.
- However, they were only able to articulate that opposition to the dictates of the employers must be organised on an international level.
- The keepsakes also revealed the tension experienced by members of the upper classes who desired to display their wealth while appearing to obey the dictates of Christian piety.
- Local councils such as Lewisham would be jumping to the demands of European dictates.
- In any case, there is only one never changing rule: all news publication must obey the dictates of the Propaganda Department.
- Obeying the dictates of modesty, they usually preferred discreet euphemisms or a blushing silence.
- They maintain that the veil enables them to become the observers and not the observed; that it liberates them from the dictates of the fashion industry and the demands of the beauty myth.
- We can all (we think) choose our own individualistic styles, scornfully ignoring the dictates of Paris and fashion magazines.
- Whether it is news, science, religion, or education, if it is happening on TV, it must follow the dictates of entertainment.
- There is no formal training or education required for the role, the only criterion being that the individual must live according to the dictates of the church.
- How unpopular would a president need to be before his unpopularity made it safe to follow the dictates of your own principles?
- In obeying the laws of a liberal constitution, we obey the dictates of reason, and to be compelled by reason is to be free.
- He has never fallen victim to the dictates of fashion or studio demands.
- In my former professional life as a doctor, for example, I was obliged more and more to obey the dictates of ministers, rather than those of my medical beliefs.
- Did it have to do with the dominance of the fashion advertisers and their dictates?
- If it were up to Henkel, only those parties strictly obeying the dictates of the business world would have a right to exist.
- Classic structural contingency theory holds that the structure of an organization must match the dictates of the environment.
- The requirements include very specific dictates on what information must be provided and when, how many course hours must be taken, and how those hours must be completed.
Synonyms order, command, decree, edict, rule, ruling, ordinance, dictum, directive, direction, instruction, pronouncement, mandate, requirement, stipulation, injunction, ultimatum, demand, exhortation principle, guiding principle, code, canon, law, rule, regulation, precept, dictum, axiom, maxim
Origin Late 16th century (in dictate (sense 2 of the verb)): from Latin dictat- ‘dictated’, from the verb dictare. |