dictating
Speaking for transcription
Dictating is giving orders or commands authoritatively: The general was dictating terms of surrender.
It also means speaking aloud for someone else to transcribe: She spent the morning dictating letters to her assistant.
More broadly, dictating is determining or controlling outcomes: Market conditions are dictating prices.
Instructions to obey
- commandsAuthoritative orders given
- directivesFormal commands or instructions
- decreesOfficial orders with force
- edictsAuthoritative public commands
mandates · instructions · proclamations · dictums · ultimatums · fiats · injunctions · demanding
Exercising power unjustly
- despoticExercising absolute authority
- autocraticRuling with absolute authority
- domineeringAggressively asserting control
- imperiousArrogantly authoritative
overbearing · bossy · high-handed · iron-fisted · oppressive · controlling · totalitarian · draconian
Compressed symbolic writing system
- shorthandAbbreviated writing system
- transcribingConverting to written form
- recordingCaptured audio or video
- notationSystem of written symbols
amanuensis · secretary · typist · stenographer · correspondence · letters · memos · minutes
Giving something its form
- influencingAltering someone's thinking
- controllingExerting authority over others
- governingControlling with authority
- guidingLeading toward destination
setting · establishing · prescribing · stipulating · specifying · defining · constraining · conditioning
orders
Instructions to obey
- commandsAuthoritative orders given
- directivesFormal commands or instructions
- decreesOfficial orders with force
edicts · mandates · instructions · proclamations · dictums · ultimatums · fiats · injunctions · demanding · directing
tyrannical
Exercising power unjustly
- despoticExercising absolute authority
- autocraticRuling with absolute authority
- domineeringAggressively asserting control
imperious · overbearing · bossy · high-handed · iron-fisted · oppressive · controlling · totalitarian · draconian · heavy-handed
stenography
Compressed symbolic writing system
- shorthandAbbreviated writing system
- transcribingConverting to written form
- recordingCaptured audio or video
notation · amanuensis · secretary · typist · stenographer · correspondence · letters · memos · minutes · notes
shaping
Giving something its form
- influencingAltering someone's thinking
- controllingExerting authority over others
- governingControlling with authority
guiding · setting · establishing · prescribing · stipulating · specifying · defining · constraining · conditioning · regulating
- speechspeech, speaking, talk, diction, conversation
- dominance tacticsbullying, commanding, controlling, domineering, intimidation
- writingwriting, drafting, authors, author, books
- Determiningdeciding, choosing, judging, concluding, resolving
- audio tasksrecording, mixing, editing, mastering, playback
- coercionduress, coercing, compelling, threat, forcing
dictatingasking
Posing questions
requesting · obeying · following · deferring · complying
dictatingtyping
Entering text via keyboard
writing · handwriting · keyboarding · texting · scribing
dictatingasking
Posing questions
requesting · inquiring · querying · pleading · beseeching
- taking dictation
- dictation machineDevice recording spoken words