Read

/ɹiːd/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
2. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
3. (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
4. To consist of certain text.
5. (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
6. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
7. (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
8. (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.

Example Sentences

Have you read this book?

He doesn’t like to read.

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]

She reads Playgirl magazine, goes to a male-strip joint and then complains about sexual harassment on the job.

On this occasion he was carrying in his right hand a copy of the English-language China News, an odd touch because the President did not read English.

He read us a passage from his new book.

All right, class, who wants to read next?

In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

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• reads
• reading
• read
• readen
• no-table-tags
• glossary
• redd
• readest
• readst
• readeth
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