dictate
/ˈdɪkˌteɪt/ verbo C2En español: dictar
- To order, command, control. · Etiquette dictates that wedding invitations should be acknowledged in writing.
- To speak in order for someone to write down the words. · She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.· The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.
- To determine or decisively affect. · We issue replacements as necessity dictates.
He/she/it dictates · Pasado dictated · Participio pasado dictated · Forma en -ing dictating
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De la biblioteca
I hope the world will not call me cowardly for acting as my conscience dictated.
“No, no, I will be on the ground at the proper time; but in my opinion (and I have a right to dictate the preliminaries, as it is I who have received the provocation)—in my opinion the time ought not to be yet.
Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady’s attention which could furnish her with an occasion for dictating to others.
I am still so weak that I have to write, as you see, by dictating.
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