English-Finnish translations for dictation

Definition of dictation

  • Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
  • An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
  • The act of ordering or commanding
  • Orders given in an overbearing manner

Examples

  • Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
  • 1908: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today
  • 1852: Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury - ...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any dictation from the court, either as to law or fact
  • His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.

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