Read
[riːd] or [rid]
Definition
(noun.) something that is read; 'the article was a very good read'.
(verb.) to hear and understand; 'I read you loud and clear!'.
(verb.) interpret something that is written or printed; 'read the advertisement'; 'Have you read Salman Rushdie?'.
(verb.) look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; 'The King will read the proclamation at noon'.
(verb.) interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; 'She read the sky and predicted rain'; 'I can't read his strange behavior'; 'The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball'.
(verb.) obtain data from magnetic tapes; 'This dictionary can be read by the computer'.
(verb.) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; 'The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero'; 'The gauge read `empty''.
(verb.) audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; 'He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year'.
(verb.) have or contain a certain wording or form; 'The passage reads as follows'; 'What does the law say?'.
Inputed by Bobbie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Rennet. See 3d Reed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Read
(v. t.) To advise; to counsel.
(v. t.) To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
(v. t.) To tell; to declare; to recite.
(v. t.) To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
(v. t.) Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
(v. t.) To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
(v. t.) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
(v. i.) To give advice or counsel.
(v. i.) To tell; to declare.
(v. i.) To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
(v. i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
(v. i.) To learn by reading.
(v. i.) To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
(v. i.) To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
(v. t.) Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
(v.) Reading.
(-) imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
(a.) Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
Inputed by Addie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Peruse.[2]. Interpret, decipher, unravel, make out, understand.
v. n. [1]. Practise reading, be studious in books.[2]. Be read, appear in reading.
a. Learned, versed in books.
Checked by Llewellyn
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Peruse, interpret, decipher, unravel, discover, recognize, learn
ANT:Misread, misinterpret, overlook, misobserve
Editor: Orville
Definition
v.t. to utter aloud written or printed words: to peruse: to comprehend: to study as to read law science: to teach: to make out from signs: to solve as to read a dream: to interpret: to understand as reading the stars: to note the indication of as to read a barometer: impute by inference as to read a meaning into a book.—v.i. to perform the act of reading: to practise much reading: to appear on reading: to advise: to speak: to acquire information: to utter the words of a book: (mus.) to render music at first sight: to put a certain expression upon it: to be suitable for perusal:—pa.t. and pa.p. read (red).—n. Read a reading perusal: (Spens.) counsel a saying an interpretation.—adj Read (red) versed in books: learned.—ns. Readabil′ity Read′ableness.—adj Readable (rēd′a-bl) that may be read: worth reading: interesting: enabling to read.—adv. Read′ably.—ns. Read′er one who reads: one whose office it is to read prayers in a church or lectures in a university &c.: one who reads or corrects proofs: one who reads much: a reading-book; Read′ership the office of a reader.—adj. Read′ing addicted to reading.—n. act of reading: perusal: study of books: public or formal recital: the way in which a passage reads: an interpretation of a passage or work: a version: noting an instrument as the reading of a barometer.—ns. Read′ing-book a book of exercises in reading; Read′ing-boy (print.) a reader's assistant; Read′ing-desk a desk for holding a book or paper while it is read: a church-lectern; Read′ing-lamp a form of lamp for use in reading; Read′ing-room a room with papers periodicals &c. resorted to for reading.—Read between the lines to detect a meaning not expressed; Read one's self in in the Church of England to read the Thirty-nine Articles and repeat the declaration of assent prescribed by law to a new incumbent.—Penny reading an entertainment consisting of readings &c. to which the admission is a penny.
Checker: Natalia
Examples
- He had not read far when he rested his head upon his two hands--to hide his face from me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Miss Kate took out her sketch again, and Margaret watched her, while Mr. Brooke lay on the grass with a book, which he did not read. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In the periodical publications of June, 1914, may be read the eloquent announcement: Langley's Folly Flies. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But if you have followed recent events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his wedding? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It seemed all at once to take the shape of an impertinence on her part; she read this meaning too in the man's eyes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Read that scrawl. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Neither had read it, but they knew it was a love story, and each privately wondered if it was half as interesting as their own. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. Jane Austen. Emma.
- With trembling hand she gave him the paper, and sat white and motionless looking at him while he read it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Shall I read aloud? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Amy stood a minute, turning the leaves in her hand, reading on each some sweet rebuke for all heartburnings and uncharitableness of spirit. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Have you come to any conclusion, sir, in your own mind, while I have been reading? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Those who loved reading were obliged to send for their books from England: the members of the Junto had each a few. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But I hope you HAD finished your reading, Henry? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- These the waggoner delivered to each of us respectively, reading the name aloud first. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is perhaps natural for a European writer writing primarily for English-reading students to overrun his subject in this way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While I was reading a shadow fell across the paper. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The early habit of reading was wanting. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But no one knows so well as the Secretary, who opens and reads the letters, what a set is made at the man marked by a stroke of notoriety. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Doesn't she remind you of Mrs. Scott-Siddons when she reads 'Lady Geraldine's Courtship'? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- One Sunday night my mother reads to Peggotty and me in there, how Lazarus was raised up from the dead. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I certainly have, this morning, received this letter--which he reads aloud--but I hope it may be set right yet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Shows it to his wife--she reads the label; it goes down to the servants- -_they_ read the label. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This was the clause--and no one who reads it can fail, I think, to agree with me that it meted out equal justice to all parties. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was a profound utterance as anyone can testify who reads, let us say, the Congressional Record. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Do you suppose the public reads with a view to its own conversion? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The blank, unornamented coop had nothing about it of that oriental voluptuousness one reads of so much. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Sir Leicester puts her letter in his hands and looks intently in his face while he reads it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Checked by Dora