dictate
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an authoritative rule
Types & categories
- prescript hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
issue commands or orders for
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- dictate derivation
- decree derivation
- dictate derivation
- prescription derivation
- bid derivation
- order derivation
- authoritarian derivation
- prescriptive derivation
Sense 3 noun
a guiding principle
the dictates of reason
Types & categories
- principle hypernym
Related & opposite
- dictate derivation
Sense 4 verb
say out loud for the purpose of recording
He dictated a report to his secretary
Types & categories
- read hypernym
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Sense 5 verb
rule as a dictator
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dictate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dictate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | prescript |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dictate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | decree |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dictate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | prescription |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | bid |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | order |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | authoritarian |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | prescriptive |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | inflict |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | mandate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dictate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | principle |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dictation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dictation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dictator |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | read |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | dictate |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | bid |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | potentate |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | rule |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | tyrannize |