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dictating, vbl. n.
[f. dictate v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb (esp. in sense 1).
1631Star Chamber Cases (Camden) 5 Sr Arthur denyed the dictating of the letter. 1815Scott Guy M. xxxix, He'll write to my dictating three nights in the week without sleep.
b. Special Comb. dictating machine, a machine on which dictated matter is recorded for subsequent audio playback and typing; cf. Dictaphone; formerly, a telephone apparatus by which letters could be dictated directly to a secretary elsewhere in an organization (see Dictograph).
1907Sci. Amer. Suppl. 11 May 26208/1 Messrs. Kelley M. Turner and William F. H. Germer..have been granted a United States patent (No. 843,186) on a telephone *dictating machine which they term a ‘dictograph’. 1957Economist 19 Oct. 205/1 (Advt.), Most people like Stenorette Dictating Machines... A Stenorette takes an average day's dictation on one spool of magnetic tape that can be used over and over again indefinitely. 1980Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Mar. (Advt. between pp. 924 & 925), Sony dictating-machines are made by people who make hi-fi systems as well. |