Dictionary Definition
read n : something that is read; "the article was
a very good read"
Verb
1 interpret something that is written or printed;
"read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"
2 have or contain a certain wording or form; "The
passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?" [syn: say]
3 look at, interpret, and say out loud something
that is written or printed; "The King will read the proclamation at
noon"
4 obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This
dictionary can be read by the computer" [syn: scan]
5 interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea
leaves, intestines, the sky, etc.; also of human behavior; "She
read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange
behavior"; "The gypsy read his fate in the crystal ball"
6 interpret something in a certain way; convey a
particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a
satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit
for this!" [syn: take]
7 indicate a certain reading; of gauges and
instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero";
"The gauge read `empty'" [syn: register, show, record]
9 audition for a stage role by reading parts of a
role; "He is auditioning for `Julius Cesar' at Stratford this
year"
10 to hear and understand; "I read you loud and
clear!"
11 make sense of a language; "She understands
French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: understand, interpret, translate]
User Contributed Dictionary
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English
Pronunciation
Noun and present tense Past tense and past participleEtymology
rædan, from *raedanan. Cognate with Dutch raden, German raten, Swedish råda. The development from ‘advise, interpret’ to ‘interpret letters, read’ is unique to English. Compare rede.Verb
- In the context of "transitive|intransitive": To look at and
interpret letters or other information that is written.
- Have you read this book?
- He doesn't like to read.
- Have you read this book?
- In the context of "transitive|intransitive": To speak aloud
words or other information that is written. Often construed with a
to phrase or an indirect object.
- He read us a passage from his new book.
- All right, class, who wants to read next?
- He read us a passage from his new book.
- In telecommunications, to be able to hear what another person
is saying over a radio connection.
- Do you read me?
- In the context of "transitive|UK": To make a special study of,
as by perusing textbooks.
- I am reading theology at university.
- To interpret or
infer a meaning, significance, etc.
- I can read his feelings in his face.
- To consist of certain text.
- On the door hung a sign that read, "Proper Safety Equipment Required Beyond This Point."
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- Arabic reads backwards.
- past of read
Synonyms
- interpret, make out, make sense of, understand
- read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak
- i-c be able to hear hear, receive
- i-c make a study of learn, study
Translations
look at and interpret letters or other
information
- Arabic:
- Catalan: llegir
- Chinese: 看 (kàn); 讀, 读 (dú)
- Czech: číst
- Danish: læse
- Dutch: lezen
- Esperanto: legi
- Finnish: lukea
- French: lire
- Georgian: კითხვა (kit‘xva)
- German: lesen
- Hebrew: לקרוא (le-kára’a)
- Hungarian: olvas, elolvas
- Irish: léigh
- Italian: leggere
- Japanese: 読む (よむ, yomu)
- Khmer: (merl), (ān)
- Korean: 읽다 (ikda)
- Lao: ອ່ານ
- Latin: legere
- Latvian: lasīt
- Lower Sorbian: cytaś
- Norwegian: lese
- Piemontese: lese
- Polish: czytać
- Portuguese: ler
- Russian: читать (čitát’)
- Scottish Gaelic: leugh
- Slovene: brati
- Spanish: leer
- Swahili: soma
- Swedish: läsa
- Tagalog: bumasa, basahin
- Telugu: చదువు
- Thai: (àan)
speak aloud words or other information that is
written
- trreq Afrikaans
- Albanian: lexon
- trreq Amharic
- Arabic:
- trreq Armenian
- Basque: irakurri
- trreq Belarusian
- trreq Bengali
- Bosnian: čitati
- trreq Breton
- Bulgarian: прочитам
- trreq Burmese
- Catalan: llegir
- Chinese: 念 (niàn)
- Croatian: čitati
- Czech: číst
- Danish: læse
- Dutch: lezen
- Esperanto: legi
- trreq Estonian
- trreq Faroese
- Finnish: lukea
- French: lire
- trreq Galician
- Georgian: კითხვა (kit‘xva)
- German: vorlesen
- Greek: διαβάζω (diavázo)
- trreq Gujarati
- Hawaiian: heluhelu
- trreq Hebrew
- trreq Hindi
- Hungarian: felolvas
- Icelandic: lesa
- Irish: léigh
- Italian: leggere
- Japanese: 読む (よむ, yomu)
- trreq Kannada
- Khmer: (merl), (ān)
- Korean: 읽다 (ikda)
- Kurdish:
- Latin: recito
- Latvian: lasīt
- Lithuanian: skaityti
- trreq Malay
- trreq Malayalam
- trreq Maltese
- trreq Maori
- trreq Mongolian
- trreq Nepali
- Norwegian: lese
- trreq Oriya
- trreq Persian
- Piemontese: lese
- Polish: czytać
- Portuguese: ler
- trreq Punjabi
- Romanian: citi
- Russian: читать (čitát’)
- trreq Samoan
- trreq Sanskrit
- Scottish Gaelic: leugh
- Serbian:
- trreq Slovak
- Slovene: brati
- Spanish: leer
- Swahili: soma
- Swedish: läsa
- Tagalog: bumasa, basahin
- trreq Tahitian
- trreq Tamil
- Telugu: వల్లెవేయు
- Thai: (àan), (àan òk sĭang)
- trreq Tongan
- Turkish: okumak
- trreq Urdu
- trreq Vietnamese
- Welsh: darllen
- West Frisian: lêze
- Yiddish: לייענען (leyenen)
be able to hear (in a radio communication)
make a study of
have the ability to read text or other
information
of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a
particular way
- ttbc Estonian: lugema
- Guaraní: moñe'ẽ
- ttbc Ido: lektar
- ttbc Indonesian: membaca
- ttbc Interlingua: leger
- ttbc Korean: 읽다 (^) (ikda), 독서하다 (^) (dokseohada)
- ttbc Polish: czytać, przeczytać, odczytać
- ttbc Romanian: citi
- ttbc Vietnamese: đọc
- ttbc Welsh: darllen
- ttbc Yiddish: לײענען (leyenen) (l)
Noun
- A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
Translations
a reading or an act of reading
- Icelandic: lesning
Old English
Etymology
*'raudhaz, from *reudh-.Germanic cognates: Old Saxon rōd (Dutch rood), Old High German rōt (German
rot), Old Norse rauðr (Icelandic
rauður,
Swedish röd), Gothic
𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃.
Indo-European cognates: Greek
ἐρυθρός, Latin ruber,
Old Irish rúad, Lithuanian
raũdas,
Russian рудой.
Pronunciation
- /'ræ:ad/
Adjective
West Frisian
Adjective
Extensive Definition
Read may refer to:
- Reading, an activity performed by a human
- Read, Lancashire, a town in England
- Read (botanical), a botanical term
- Read (magazine), a children's magazine
- Read (poker), the act of studying another player's tendencies and style of play to draw conclusions about their cards
- Read (surname), a list of people with this surname
- Read, the recognition of a person's birth-assigned sex when they fail to pass as a gender not usually associated with their biological status
See also
read in German: Read
read in French: Read
read in Polish: Read
read in Slovenian: Read (razločitev)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absorb,
announce, appreciate, apprehend, assign to, assimilate, be with one,
bone, catch, catch on, comprehend, con, conceive, construe, contemplate, correct copy,
debate, decipher, declaim, define, deliver, demagogue, describe, diagnose, dig, digest, drill, elocute, elucubrate, examine, fathom, feel out, fly a kite,
follow, get, get hold of, get the drift, get
the idea, get the picture, go in for, go over, grasp, grind, harangue, have, have it taped, hold forth,
impute to, indicate,
interpret, ken, know, learn, look over, lucubrate, major in, mark, master, minor in, mouth, orate, out-herod Herod, perorate, peruse, plunge into, pore over,
practice, present, probe, proofread, rabble-rouse,
rant, read for, read into,
read law, realize,
recite, record, regard studiously,
register, restudy, review, rodomontade, savvy, say, scan, seize, seize the meaning, sense, skim, sound, sound out, specialize in,
spiel, spout, study, study for, study to be,
swot, take, take in, take it that, take
to mean, tub-thump, understand, understand by,
vet, wade
through