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What does dictation mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
  2. (countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
  3. (countable) The act of ordering or commanding
  4. (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner
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Who knows, maybe I'll find a little London lad to pound out some dictation for me.
The book's success was so surprising to Stowe, she claimed that she did not write the book so much as take dictation from God.
It is also possible to create different dictation macros with associated text that can be inserted into a document.
And as you've mentioned, in terms of Jack Spicer, for whom they write the poems, he's just taking down the dictation.
I did, though get a reaction when I asked, in all innocence, if she would take dictation.
Each snippet is very much like the dictation you would hear if you were at a museum and had one of those handheld audio guides.

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