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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

... which she read but which we may pass by. The fate of the prisoner was in the hands of a jury. The possibility suggested by the defence made no appeal to men who had the unfortunate prisoner under their eye at every stage of the proceedings. The shifty eye, the hang-dog look, outweighed the plea ...

— Dark Hollow • Anna Katharine Green

... the dismissal of the Assembly made ready to return to England. August 3, 1680, he read to the Council an order from the King granting him permission to leave the colony, and a few days later he set sail in The James.[909] The government was again left in the ...

— Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 • Thomas J. Wertenbaker

... servant. Three gentlemen who have travelled extensively have given me lists of the prices which I ought to pay, varying in different districts, and largely increased on the beaten track of tourists, and Mr. Wilkinson has read these to Ito, who offered an occasional remonstrance. Mr. W. remarked after the conversation, which was in Japanese, that he thought I should have to "look sharp after money matters"—a painful prospect, ...

— Unbeaten Tracks in Japan • Isabella L. Bird

... opportunity of presenting the missing bottle at a time when the owner of it was not by, and fancied, from the blush which gave additional beauty to her cheek as I did so, that with the natural quickness of a woman and a beauty, she had read the stratagem played off on poor Adam; so she frankly offered me the same reward, by presenting her blooming lips to be kissed, even by so ...

— Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines - During 1848, 1849 and 1850 • Robert Mac Micking

... the two messages, a sudden tremor shook her frame; then she read them over again, speaking the words aloud as if to give them reality. "Oh Hugh! Hugh!" she cried, "how can I live ...

— The Old Stone House • Anne March

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