English Dictionary

dictate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɪkˌteɪt/

動詞

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

日本語の意味

命じる・指示する / （口述して）書き取らせる / 決定的な影響を及ぼす

The director attempted to dictate every detail of the performance, leaving no room for the actors' own choices.

監督は公演の細部をすべて支配しようとし、俳優たちの自主的な選択の余地を残さなかった。

意味（1）

To order, command, control.

Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.

意味（2）

To speak in order for someone to write down the words.

She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.

意味（3）

To determine or decisively affect.

He had offered, and been refused! There was that in her own nature, which sympathised with the pride, for such she held to be the motive, dictating the refusal.

dictates （ present singular third-person ）

dictating （ participle present ）

dictated （ participle past ）

dictated （ past ）