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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

... supreme and inmost sense treats of the Lord, of His kingdom in the heavens and on earth, and of love and faith from Him and towards Him, consequently of life from Him and in Him. Such things are exhibited to the angels in heaven when the Word of our Earth is read ...

— Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There • Emanuel Swedenborg

... assistant engineer motive power department, Pennsylvania Railroad. Read at a regular meeting of the New York Railroad ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 • Various

... suggestion of hostility on the part of the Treasury, were determined that Secretary Chase should take open ground. The embarrassment was relieved by a letter from the Secretary to the Committee of Ways and Means, dated Jan. 29, and read in the House on the 4th of February by Mr. Spaulding. The letter had great influence on Congress. Without it, the measure would probably have ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... Elinor's grandfather, was decidedly a clever man. He had held a high position, in his profession, until he withdrew from it, and had, at one time, honourably distinguished himself as a politician. He was well educated, and well read; his library, at Wyllys-Roof, was, indeed, one of the best in the country. Moreover, Mr. Wyllys was a philosopher, a member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia; and the papers he read, before that honourable association, were generally much admired by his audience. It is even ...

— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper

... and sitting down again]. Yes, yes, of course; but have you no knowledge of the causes of the war? of the interests at stake? of the importance—I may almost say—in fact I will say—the sacred right for which we are fighting? Don't you read the papers? ...

— O'Flaherty V. C. • George Bernard Shaw

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