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Read

verb

(past & past part. read; pres. part. reading)

1.

Interpret something that is written or printed. "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"

2.

Have or contain a certain wording or form. Synonym: say. "What does the law say?"

3.

Look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed.

4.

Obtain data from magnetic tapes. Synonym: scan.

5.

Interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior. "I can't read his strange behavior" , "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"

6.

Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression. Synonym: take. "How should I take this message?" , "You can't take credit for this!"

7.

Be a student of a certain subject. Synonyms: learn, study, take.

8.

Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments. Synonyms: record, register, show. "The gauge read 'empty'"

9.

Audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role.

10.

To hear and understand.

11.

Make sense of a language. Synonyms: interpret, translate, understand. "Can you read Greek?"

noun

1.

Something that is read.

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"Read" Quotes from Famous Books

... all fear vanishing in the glow of righteous indignation which filled him,—"I meant the system which makes it a crime to teach a man to read—a punishable offence to befriend the poor and down-trodden, or to bind up wounds. A system which makes it dangerous for one to utter his honest opinions, even in private, to a person towards whom he is at the same time showing the mercy ...

— Cudjo's Cave • J. T. Trowbridge

... us thus far to adopt this branch of botany as their speciality. Hitherto it has been very much neglected, and a wide field is open for investigation and research. The life-history of the majority of species has still to be read, and the prospects of new discoveries for the industrious and persevering student are great. All who have as yet devoted themselves with assiduity have been in this manner rewarded. The objects are easily obtainable, and there is a constantly increasing infatuation in the study. Where so much ...

— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

... We read in Anaxagoras, that Orpheus said, that the water, and the vessel that produced it, were the primitive principles of things, and together gave existence to an animated being, which was a serpent, with two heads, one of a lion and the other ...

— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

... or to as high a degree as the interior of the oven, the true temperature of the oven cannot be ascertained by this device. By making allowance for the difference, however, such a thermometer may prove very useful. It is much more accurately and conveniently read than a thermometer which is hung or rests inside the oven unless the oven is ...

— School and Home Cooking • Carlotta C. Greer

... four hundred miles north of here, in Athabasca Lake. Both these two rivers, you might say, come together there. But look what a long river it is if you call the Athabasca and the Mackenzie the same! And look at the big lakes up there that we have read about. The Mackenzie takes you ...

— Young Alaskans in the Far North • Emerson Hough

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