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What does read mean?
Definitions in simple English

read Verb

— Someone is reading when they are looking at a book or other writing and understanding what it says. Have you read this book?

read Noun

— A read is something that you read. That last book was a great read. — A read is an act of reading something. This is a great book. You should give it a read.

read

— verb interpret something that is written or printed read the advertisement Have you read Salman Rushdie? — verb (= say) have or contain a certain wording or form The passage reads as follows What does the law say? — verb look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed The King will read the proclamation at noon — verb 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 — verb obtain data from magnetic tapes This dictionary can be read by the computer — verb (= take) 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! — verb be a student of a certain subject She is reading for the bar exam — verb (= show) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero The gauge read 'empty' — verb to hear and understand I read you loud and clear! — verb audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role He is auditioning for 'Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year — noun something that is read the article was a very good read — verb (= understand) make sense of a language She understands French Can you read Greek?

Synonyms read synonyms

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Topics read topics

What do people use read to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Reading and writing

Read
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Omen, divination
States Big

Measure
Person Healthy Disabled

Deaf

  • What words refer to a deaf person understanding someone by watching their mouth?
    lip-read lip-reading
Social behavior Social activity Music

Play music
Work and occupation Hunt and fish Hunt

Track an animal
Physical actions Move Travel

Map

Conjugation read conjugation

How do you conjugate read?

read · verb

Examples read examples

How do I use read in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
You have only to read a few pages of this book.
You should by all means read the book.
I want you to read this book.
You can read ten books in a week? Don't you mean in a month?
When I was a child, my mother would often read fairy tales to me.
Have you read the book yet?
Have you read today's paper yet?
Read it once more, please.
Mr White read out some letters of thanks to his students.
Tom says that he can read a French book.
It is worthwhile to read the book.
Take a book and read it.
I read a book while eating.
An astute reader should be willing to weigh everything they read, including anonymous sources.
Professors should explain everything in detail, not be succinct and always tell students to go home and read their books.
You should read such books as you consider important.
Have you ever read any Chinese poems?
Did you read it at all?
It would be better for you to read more books.
Have you read this book already?

Movie subtitles

It'll all make sense if you read Part 3, so follow those books from the hill with the tree!
I've never actually read it.
Plates that became the Book of Mormon, a book that is still today read by missionaries all over the world!
I texted my friend the story of Joseph Smith's battle with diarrhea, and he said everyone in his village has read it.
Yeah, I can read.
Why would we want to read articles from so many years ago?
It's hard to read his face.
Read it. You'll like it.
The last one, the farewell poem, read the last lines.
Read this!
Yes, but I didn't read it.
Can you read and write?
Read this one.
You assured me that you could read.
My father didn't have a son, so he taught me to read and write like a boy.
He read them to the emperor.
I read your articles and pamphlet on Algeria.
He read my books.
Half the colonists are Spanish and can't read French.
My actions were based on what I saw. I read the situation, and I lead my squad.
Still, I read all your moves.
Thanks to what 008 did, they couldn't have gotten a read on our exact location.
If you want me to read you the letter, step back.
Read me what you have so far.
Now read me the letter.
Go ahead, read on, friend!
Far be it from me to read your private mail.
Me read your letter?
He couldn't even read.
He can read now.
I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN HELP YOU, REALLY. I READ THIS ARTICLE THAT SAID THERE WERE THESE.
You said you read, Jackson.
Let me read it to you.
Read there.
Read, read. read further.

News and current affairs

As you read this, perfectly ordinary people somewhere in the world are doing unspeakable things to others.
That tragedy can be read on many levels, each more heart-rending than the next.
It is no fun to read a book or article that says that economic forecasting is best left to computer models that you, the general reader, would need a Ph.D. to understand.
After all, books still in print are likely to be the ones that contain the most up-to-date information, and the ones that people most want to read.
Access to electricity could solve that problem, while allowing families to read at night, own a refrigerator to keep food from spoiling, or use a computer to connect with the world.
The young worker does not learn how to play, or how to read and write; worse, he smokes and, in the Caribbean, he drinks cane rum to keep going, as he doesn't have enough to eat.
They don't need to read or hear about the Falun Gong and human rights to make sound investment or purchasing decisions.
Each side, believing it will end up at war with the other, makes reasonable military preparations that are read by the other side as confirmation of its worst fears.
Who needs to read closely, seek evidence, and make a reasoned argument - skills that the study of poetry, the novel, history, and philosophy provide?
It is easy to read the 1973 war only in retrospect.
NEW YORK: Throughout history, shamans and soothsayers, wizards and witches have tried to read and tame the future.
If scientists can decode the genetic code and read the instructions, so the argument goes, they will find the key to human ailments and predict our predispositions.
Such questions will have increasing salience in light of the concerns about economic efficiency and cost containment that are shaping the efforts of today's shamans to read, assess, and tame the future in this, the age of biotechnology.
Cervantes' political parody can be read in many twentieth-century East European stories.
So I finally read War's Unwomanly Face.
If these books can be read as developing a new idea of Argentina, it is the idea that there is little to trust, that everything is fraudulent, and that leeriness must be our worldview.
External observers are bound to try to read policy messages between the lines of any publication, which may not always help the bank to achieve its objectives.
On the Hong Kong-based search engine, Chinese internauts could read about Taiwan, the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, or the Dalai Lama.
PRAGUE - Read a newspaper or watch the evening news, and the world always seems to be getting worse.
Cyber intrusion in peacetime allows the prowler to read the content and understand the relative importance of different computer networks so that it knows what to disable in a conflict situation.
Observers might then read his recent efforts to improve relations with Japan, not to mention Vietnam, as a genuine strategic shift, rather than a temporary tactical adjustment.
The Xinhua reports, I believe, are best read as damage control.
In short, we simply shouldn't read too much into the decline in real long-term interest rates over the last 20 years.

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