read
n 1: something that is read; "the article was a very good read"
v 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: read, 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: read, scan]
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"
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, read]
7: be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the
bar exam" [syn: learn, study, read, take]
8: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The
thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge
read `empty'" [syn: read, register, show, record]
9: audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; "He is
auditioning for `Julius Caesar' 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, read, interpret,
translate]
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Read \Read\ (r[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Read (r[e^]d); p.
pr. & vb. n. Reading.] [OE. reden, r[ae]den, AS. r[=ae]dan
to read, advise, counsel, fr. r[=ae]d advice, counsel,
r[=ae]dan (imperf. reord) to advise, counsel, guess; akin to
D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. r[=a][eth]a,
Goth. r[=e]dan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. r[=a]dh to
succeed. [root]116. Cf. Riddle.]
1. To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] See Rede.
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Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and
thereby try all doctrine. --Tyndale.
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2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
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3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.]
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But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
--Spenser.
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4. To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or
recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of,
as of language, by interpreting the characters with which
it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to
read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read
the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
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Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille.
--Chaucer.
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Well could he rede a lesson or a story. --Chaucer.
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5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
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Who is't can read a woman? --Shak.
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6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features,
etc.; to learn by observation.
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An armed corse did lie,
In whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
--Spenser.
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Those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
--Shak.
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7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as,
to read theology or law.
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To read one's self in, to read aloud the Thirty-nine
Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a
clergyman of the Church of England when he first
officiates in a new benefice.
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Read \Read\, v. i.
1. To give advice or counsel. [Obs.]
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2. To tell; to declare. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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3. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over
and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like
document.
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So they read in the book of the law of God
distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii.
8.
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4. To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
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5. To learn by reading.
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I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to
death for an iniquitous sentence. --Swift.
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6. To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or
consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage
reads thus in the early manuscripts.
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7. To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence
reads queerly.
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To read between the lines, to infer something different
from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning
as distinguished from the apparent meaning.
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Read \Read\, n. [AS. r[=ae]d counsel, fr. r[=ae]dan to counsel.
See Read, v. t.]
1. Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See
Rede. [Obs.]
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2. [Read, v.] Reading. [Colloq.] --Hume.
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One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a
read. --Furnivall.
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