These are the meanings of the letters DICTATORIAN when you unscramble them.
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Dictation (n.)
The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.
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Dictation (n.)
The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
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Indicator (n.)
A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part
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Indicator (n.)
A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc.
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Indicator (n.)
An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the piston rod of the engine. See Indicator card (below).
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Indicator (n.)
Any bird of the genus Indicator and allied genera. See Honey guide, under Honey.
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Indicator (n.)
One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.
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Indicator (n.)
That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis.
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Indicator (n.)
The part of an instrument by which an effect is indicated, as an index or pointer.
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Radiation (n.)
The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.
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Radiation (n.)
The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like the diverging rays of light; as, the radiation of heat.
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Tradition (n.)
An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
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Tradition (n.)
Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.
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Tradition (n.)
That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.
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Tradition (n.)
The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
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Tradition (n.)
The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.
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Tradition (v. t.)
To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.