different between request vs dictate

English

Alternative forms

• requeste (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English request, from Old French requeste (French requête), from Vulgar Latin *requaesita, from Latin requ?s?ta, feminine of requ?s?tus (“requested, demanded”), past participle of requ?r? (“require, ask”). Compare to French requetér.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kw?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: re?quest

Verb

request (third-person singular simple present requests, present participle requesting, simple past and past participle requested)

1. (transitive or with that clause) To ask for (something).

2. (transitive) To ask (somebody) to do something.

   Synonyms: ask, bespeak, call for

Translations

Noun

request (plural requests)

1. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).

   Synonyms: asking, beseech, prayer, wish

   • 1839, The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports

     The promise that arises upon an account stated, is to pay on request.

2. A formal message requesting something.

   Synonyms: petition, postulation

3. Condition of being sought after.

   Synonym: demand
4. (networking) A message sent over a network to a server.

5. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.

Derived terms

• discovery request
• request for admission
• request for production

Related terms

• require
• requirement
• requisite

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary:Requested entries:English

Further reading

• request on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• request in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• request in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• request at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• quester

Middle English

Alternative forms

• requeste, reqweste, rekeyste

Etymology

From Old French requeste, from Vulgar Latin *requaesita; equivalent to re- +? quest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??kw?st(?)/

Noun

request (plural requestes)

1. A request or petition; a pleading or asking.
2. (Late Middle English) What is requested or petitioned for; something that is sought-after.
3. (Late Middle English) A adventure or heroic journey.

Descendants

• English: request
• Scots: request

References

• “request(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-3.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dict?tus, perfect passive participle of dict? (“pronounce or declare repeatedly; dictate”), frequentative of d?c? (“say, speak”).

Pronunciation

Noun

• IPA^(key): /?d?k?te?t/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?k?te?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?k?te?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Noun

dictate (plural dictates)

1. An order or command.

   I must obey the dictates of my conscience.

Translations

Verb

dictate (third-person singular simple present dictates, present participle dictating, simple past and past participle dictated)

1. To order, command, control.
   • 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press ?ISBN, page 409,

     Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.

2. To speak in order for someone to write down the words.

3. To determine or decisively affect.

Derived terms

• dictation
• dictator

Translations

See also

• diktat

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dik?ta?.te/, [d??k?t?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dik?ta.te/, [d?ik?t???t??]

Participle

dict?te

1. vocative masculine singular of dict?tus

Verb

dict?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dict?