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read - something that is read; "the article was a very good read" |
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publication the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution
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read - interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?" |
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construe,
interpret,
see make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"
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anagram,
anagrammatise,
anagrammatize read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning
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reread read anew; read again; "He re-read her letters to him"
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dip into read selectively; read only certain passages from a text
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decipher,
trace read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"
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skim over,
skim move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
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lip-read,
lipread,
speech-read interpret by lipreading; of deaf people
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read - look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; "The King will read the proclamation at noon" |
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mouth,
utter,
verbalise,
verbalize,
speak,
talk articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word"
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numerate read out loud as words written numbers
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dictate say out loud for the purpose of recording; "He dictated a report to his secretary"
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call rouse somebody from sleep with a call; "I was called at 5 A.M. this morning"
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read - indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'" |
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register,
show,
record |
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indicate indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents"
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say indicate; "The clock says noon"
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show give evidence of, as of records; "The diary shows his distress that evening"
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strike cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp; "strike an arc"
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read - 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" |
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read,
take to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!"
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forebode,
predict,
prognosticate,
foretell,
promise,
anticipate,
call make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
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scry divine by gazing into crystals
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read - have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?" |
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say |
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feature,
have suffer from; be ill with; "She has arthritis"
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read - to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!" |
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understand know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"
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read,
take to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!"
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read - obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer" |
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scan |
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construe,
interpret,
see make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"
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misread interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!"
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read - audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year" |
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audition,
try out perform in order to get a role; "She auditioned for a role on Broadway"
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performing arts arts or skills that require public performance
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