read
noun
1. something that is read
- the article was a very good read
Definition categories: communication, publication
verb
1. interpret something that is written or printed
- read the advertisement
- Have you read Salman Rushdie?
Definition categories: cognition, construe, interpret, see
2. have or contain a certain wording or form
- The passage reads as follows
Similar word(s): say
Definition categories: stative, feature, have
3. look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
- The King will read the proclamation at noon
Definition categories: cognition, mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
4. obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- This dictionary can be read by the computer
Similar word(s): scan
Definition categories: cognition, construe, interpret, see
5. interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
- She read the sky and predicted rain
- I can't read his strange behavior
- The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball
Definition categories: cognition, anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise
6. interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- I read this address as a satire
Similar word(s): take
Definition categories: cognition, construe, interpret, see
7. be a student of a certain subject
- She is reading for the bar exam
Similar word(s): learn, study, take
Definition categories: cognition
8. indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- The gauge read `empty'
Similar word(s): record, register, show
Definition categories: communication, indicate
9. audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
Definition categories: creation, audition
10. to hear and understand
- I read you loud and clear!
Definition categories: cognition, understand
11. make sense of a language
- Can you read Greek?
Similar word(s): interpret, translate, understand
Definition categories: cognition, understand
Sentences with read as a verb:
- have you read this book?;
- He read us a passage from his new book.
- All right, class, who wants to read next?
- She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.
- I can read his feelings in his face.
- On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance".
- The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.
- Arabic reads right to left.
- That sentence reads strangely.
- Do you read me?
- I am reading theology at university.
- to read a hard disk; to read a port; to read the keyboard
- Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.