(uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words. / (countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.

An order or command.

To order, command, control. / To speak in order for someone to write down the words. / To determine or decisively affect.

A dictionary in electronic form (software or hardware).

An incidental remark; especially (law) a statement or remark in a court's judgment that is not essential to the disposition of the case.

simple past tense and past participle of dictate

A dictionary whose purpose is translating from language to language, as opposed to defining words in a single language.

of or pertaining to a dictator / in the manner of a dictator, usually with callous disregard for others.

(semantics) A descriptive definition specifying one of the commonly used meanings of the defined term.

a list of words, or groups of words, ordered according to the number of each letter in the word; used for solving crosswords and similar puzzles