read
A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
Noun
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- I had a read of the evening papers.
- One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read. - 1879, Frederick James Furnivall, letter to the editor of "The Spectator":
- And when he finishes supper / Planning to have a read at the evening paper / It's Put a screw in this wall— / He has no time at all[…] - 1958, Philip Larkin, Self's the Man:
- Something to be read; a written work.
- His thrillers are always a gripping read.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- What's your read of the current political situation?
- On the quarterback's first read of the situation, his target receiver was not open.
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- [As] Corey points out, "if you and I are both black queens then we can't call each other black queens because that's not a read. That's a [fact]." - 1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186...
- Like most African-American women, Pearlie Mae uses snapping in many of the same ways that black gay men use it: to accentuate a read. - 2003, Philip Auslander, Performance: Media and technology, page 185:
- I learned that it was acceptable to be witty, especially if you were one of the wearblackallthetime, deconstructivist, radical, feministbitchydiva girls who could give a harsh read (i.e., critique) or throw shade […]. -...
- The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
Origin
From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”). Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”), Persian رده (rade, “to order, to arrange, class”). In West Germanic the verb had a sense “interpret”, which developed further into “interpret letters” in English and “interpret by intuition, guess” on the continent. Compare rede.
Forms
Derived
beach read chemistry read cold read destructive read dirty read megaread multiread non-destructive read phantom read pseudoread quick read read count read head read-in read length read-out readout sensitivity read stale read subread table read uniread
Verb Entry 2
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- Have you read this book?
- He doesn’t like to read.
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all...
Synonyms: interpret make out make sense of understand scan
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(ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
- Arabic reads right to left.
- That sentence reads strangely.
Synonyms: interpret make out make sense of understand scan
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(transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author.
- At the moment I'm reading Milton.
Synonyms: interpret make out make sense of understand scan
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- He read us a passage from his new book.
- All right, class, who wants to read next?
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be...
Synonyms: read aloud read out read out loud speak
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
- She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.
- I can read his feelings in his face.
- To consist of certain text.
- On the door hung a sign that read "No admittance".
- To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron. - 1832, John Lemprière et al., Bibliotheca classica, Seventh Edition, W. E. Dean, page 263
- The sign of coefficient a(3) in the general formula of Table 2 should be plus instead of minus. Thus, the formula should read […] - 2001, Astronomy & Astrophysics, volume 376, issue 3, p. 1039
Synonyms: sic pro
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(by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
- Our school focuses primarily on the liberal arts (read "useless degrees").
- Eliminate illogical (read: stupid) answer choices. - 2009, Suzee Vlk et al., The GRE Test for Dummies, 6th edition, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 191:
- Parents, meanwhile, deplored [Bratz dolls] as far too adult (read: slutty) for kids, accusing the doe-eyed, pouty-lipped toys of fostering unhealthy body images among young girls. - 2010 December 23, Tamara Weston,...
Synonyms: sic pro
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- Do you read me?
- Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL? - 1968, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey, spoken by Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea):
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance.
- To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
- I am reading theology at university.
- Crabbe wanted him to go to England, to read for a degree there. - 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 94:
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- to read a hard disk
- to read a port
- to read the keyboard
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.
Synonyms: clock
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
- I've seen drags "read" an unattractive transsexual until she was almost in tears. - 1976 August 7, Tommi Avicolli, “The Politics of Camp”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
- Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade […] - 1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris...
- CB [a black gay person being quoted]: "So, one time I read him and we were standing downstairs at the front desk in the dorm and I read him and there was this little bell […]." In the first example, the interviewee [CB]...
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
Forms
reads reading read readen no-table-tags glossary redd readest readst readeth -
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Derived
aread arread backread beread beta-read book-read cold read copyread counterread dictated but not read eavesread foreread half-read hate-read have one's head read leave someone on read lipread lip read lip-read mind-read mindread misread must-read on read
Verb form of, participle
- simple past and past participle of read
Origin
From Middle English redde (simple past), red, rad (past participle), from Old English rǣdde (simple past), (ġe)rǣded (past participle), conjugations of rǣdan (“to read”); see above.