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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

... Court, Grub Street," Lavinia read; "Sir,—I give you notiss that if you do nott pay me my nine weeks' rent you owe me by twelve o'clock to-morrer I shall at wunce take possesshun and have innstruckted the sheriff's offiser in ackordance therewith. ...

— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce

... Echizen, Hikone, and other loyal clans. After a battle which lasted several days, and which raged chiefly about the imperial palace, the Choshu troops were completely defeated and forced to retire. It gives us an idea of the terrible earnestness of these Japanese warriors to read how a little remnant of the Choshu troops took refuge on Tennozan; and when they heard their pursuers approaching, how seventeen of them committed hara-kiri(302); and lest their heads should be recognized and their names disgraced, how they had thrown themselves into the ...

— Japan • David Murray

... if the story were not complete, the conclusion of the last Canto of the sixth Book, evidently the work of a later hand than Valmiki's, which speaks of Rama's glorious and happy reign and promises blessings to those who read and hear the Ramayan, would be sufficient to show that, when these verses were added, the poem was considered to be finished. The Uttarakanda or Last Book is merely an appendix or a supplement and relates only events antecedent ...

— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

... farmhouse where her mother died and were using one of the upstairs rooms as a 'den.' They got in through a cellar window, it seems. They were each writing a novel, and that was where they worked and read what they had written to each other. That lasted only about six weeks or so before Mr. Windom found out about it. He was terrible. You see, without knowing it, they had picked out the room that was most sacred to him. It was his wife's own room,—where she died and where Alix's ...

— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon

... means at the command of Poliziano and his musical associates. The study of this entire matter calls for care and judgment, for it is involved in a mass of misinformation, lack of any information and ill grounded conclusions. For example, we read in a foot-note of Rolland's excellent work [18] that in March, 1518, the "Suppositi" of Ariosto was performed at the Vatican before Pope Leo with musical intermezzi. The author quotes from a letter of Pauluzo, envoy of the ...

— Some Forerunners of Italian Opera • William James Henderson

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