All 9 Uses of
dictate
in
Babbitt
- He sighed; he read through his mail; he shouted "Msgoun," which meant "Miss McGoun"; and began to dictate.†
Chpt 3
- Wish she'd quit trying to improve on my dictation!†
Chpt 3 *
- The most important thing he dictated that morning was the fortnightly form-letter, to be mimeographed and sent out to a thousand "prospects."†
Chpt 3
- Dictation over, with its need of sitting and thinking instead of bustling around and making a noise and really doing something, Babbitt sat creakily back in his revolving desk-chair and beamed on Miss McGoun.†
Chpt 3
- He kept Miss McGoun after he had finished dictating.†
Chpt 23
- Nobody can dictate to me what I think!†
Chpt 26 *
- Nobody could dictate to him how he was going to think and act!†
Chpt 32
- She took dictation swiftly, her typing was perfect, but Babbitt became jumpy when he tried to work with her.†
Chpt 32
- He drove to the office, tried to dictate letters, tried to telephone and, before the call was answered, forgot to whom he was telephoning.†
Chpt 33
Definitions:
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(dictate as in: Hitler dictated that...) issue commands or orders
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(dictate as in: dictate a letter) say out loud for the purpose of recording