dictates
Speaks for transcription
Dictates functions as both noun and verb, with the verb having two distinct senses.
To dictate is to speak aloud for someone else to transcribe: She dictated the letter to her assistant.
It also means to impose rules or terms authoritatively: The victor dictates the terms of surrender.
As a noun, dictates are commands or authoritative pronouncements, often from an abstract source: the dictates of conscience, the dictates of fashion.
What dictates behavior effectively controls or determines it.
Instructions to obey
- directivesFormal commands or instructions
- instructionsGuidance on how to proceed
- edictsAuthoritative public commands
- proclamationsFormal public announcements
demands · fiats · ultimatums · injunctions · decrees · pronouncements · imperatives · mandates
Formal authoritative directive
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
- ruleGoverning principle or standard
- controlAuthority to direct
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
sovereignty · power · governance · regime · autocracy · tyranny · despotism · supremacy
Settles or concludes
- shapesExternal outlines of things
- controlsOperates or regulates
- governsExercises political authority
- drivesMoves or compels
guides · steers · directs · decides · rules · sways · compels · forces
Accepted social practices
- protocolPrescribed conduct rules
- standardsAccepted levels of quality
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
- moresBinding social standards
customs · expectations · propriety · decorum · tradition · code · rules · principles
Convert to written form
- stenographerPerson recording spoken words
- shorthandAbbreviated writing system
- secretaryAdministrative office aide
- typistOne who keyboards
recording · voicemail · memo · letter · correspondence · notes · amanuensis · speech-to-text
orders
Instructions to obey
- directivesFormal commands or instructions
- instructionsGuidance on how to proceed
- edictsAuthoritative public commands
proclamations · demands · fiats · ultimatums · injunctions · decrees · pronouncements · imperatives · mandates · summons
mandate
Formal authoritative directive
dominance · sovereignty · power · governance · regime · autocracy · tyranny · despotism · supremacy · hegemony
determines
Settles or concludes
drives · guides · steers · directs · decides · rules · sways · compels · forces · constrains
conventions
Accepted social practices
mores · customs · expectations · propriety · decorum · tradition · code · rules · principles · precepts
transcribe
Convert to written form
- stenographerPerson recording spoken words
- shorthandAbbreviated writing system
- secretaryAdministrative office aide
typist · recording · voicemail · memo · letter · correspondence · notes · amanuensis · speech-to-text · audio
- restrictionsban, bans, limits, limit, restrictions
- ruleslaw, rule, guideline, bylaw, standard
- mandatesmandates, edicts, decrees, directives, orders
- requirementsrequirement, requirements, prerequisite, requisite, requisites
- takes chargecontrols, manages, directs, leads, commands
- military dictator
- taking dictation
- tin-pot dictatorWeak ruler pretending grandeur
- tinpot dictatorContemptible small-scale authoritarian
- The Great Dictator1940 satirical film
- dictation machineDevice recording spoken words
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