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Read

verb

(past & past part. read; pres. part. reading)

1.

Interpret something that is written or printed. "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"

2.

Have or contain a certain wording or form. Synonym: say. "What does the law say?"

3.

Look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed.

4.

Obtain data from magnetic tapes. Synonym: scan.

5.

Interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior. "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. Synonym: take. "How should I take this message?" , "You can't take credit for this!"

7.

Be a student of a certain subject. Synonyms: learn, study, take.

8.

Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments. Synonyms: record, register, show. "The gauge read 'empty'"

9.

Audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role.

10.

To hear and understand.

11.

Make sense of a language. Synonyms: interpret, translate, understand. "Can you read Greek?"

noun

1.

Something that is read.

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... Rankin. Read. Reasoning: inductive, errors of induction, deductive, relation between inductive and deductive, errors of deduction. Reasons: number and value of. Recitations: preparation for, topical. Refutation. Reid, Captain Mayne. Repetition: developing a paragraph by, exposition by use of. Reproduction: ...

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... somehow, for he could read presently and was soon regarded as a good speller for his years. His spelling came as a natural gift, as did most of his attainments, then ...

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... or chiefly the stern theologian whom men picture to themselves when they are told that he was the Calvin of those early days, or when they read from his voluminous and often illogical writings quotations which have a hard sound. If he taught a stern doctrine of predestinarianism, he taught also the great power of sacramental grace; if he dwelt at ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various

... according to their deserts." Such we believe to be the meaning of Christ's own predictions of his second coming. He figuratively identifies himself with his religion according to that idiom by which it is written, "Moses hath in every city them that read him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day." His figure of himself as the universal judge is a bold personification; for he elsewhere says, "He that believeth in me believeth not in me, but in Him that sent me." And again, "He that rejecteth ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

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