Word Finder - reading

definition

To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

example

Have you read this book?

synonyms

• interpret
• make out
• make sense of
• scan
• understand

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To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.

example

All right, class, who wants to read next?

synonyms

• read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak

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To read work(s) written by (a named author).

example

At the moment I'm reading Milton.

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To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from.

example

I can read his feelings in his face.

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To consist of certain text.

example

On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance".

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Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.

example

Arabic reads right to left.

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To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.

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(usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.

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To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

example

Do you read me?

synonyms

• copy
• hear
• receive

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To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal)

example

A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance.

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(except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.

example

I am reading theology at university.

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• learn
• study

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To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).

example

to read a hard disk; to read a port; to read the keyboard

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To think, believe; to consider (that).

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To advise; to counsel. See rede.

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To tell; to declare; to recite.

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To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

example

Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.

synonyms

• clock

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To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.

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The process of interpreting written language.

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The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.

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A value indicated by a measuring device.

example

a speedometer reading.

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An event at which written material is read aloud.

example

a poetry reading.

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An interpretation.

example

a reading of the current situation.

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Something to read; reading material.

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The extent of what one has read.

example

He's a man of good reading.

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(legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.

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A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience: readings from the Bible

He was always reading, learning, inquiring.

I am reading a very sad story, called "Little Jakey."

She was an open book to him and he was obsessed with the idea of reading it.

They spent the rest of the spring reading and studying.

The actual tip sounds like someone is reading it and it's always worded in the same format.

She found him in the living room reading the newspaper.

You will sense without reading minds.

I'm reading their blogs.

I learned what I know of the world from reading in his library, and I learned to fight.

After reading my arguments, you may or may not believe the future I describe is inevitable, as I say it is.

It was midnight, and he'd just finished reading Jenn's latest report.

Cynthia asked, as if reading his mind.

Carmen sat down beside his bed and pulled out the horse book she had been reading to him.

Unable to sit still he paced up and down the room holding the letter and reading it.

Only now in the stillness of the night, reading it by the faint light under the green shade, did he grasp its meaning for a moment.

You can't go around reading other people's mail!

Alex was sitting in his chair, reading a magazine and glanced up when she spoke.

She sat running her finger over the braille manuscript, stopping now and then to refer to the braille notes on which she had indicated her corrections, all the time reading aloud to verify the manuscript.

Alex dropped his mind reading gaze on her.

But before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced that dinner was ready!

My eyes are tired from all this reading and culling, discarding the inappropriate ones.

The silver of her eyes flared and swirled as she gazed at him, an indication she was reading either his future or his mind.

The Watcher returned his gaze to his phone, reading a text.

Nobody I talked to ever heard of Dawkins, but Mrs. Worthington said she remembers reading about this Rowland guy.

We have reading lessons every day.

He began reading about the sufferings and virtuous struggles of a certain Emilie de Mansfeld.

And he began reading Bilibin's letter which was written in French.

When Michael Ivanovich returned to the study with the letter, the old prince, with spectacles on and a shade over his eyes, was sitting at his open bureau with screened candles, holding a paper in his outstretched hand, and in a somewhat dramatic attitude was reading his manuscript-- his "Remarks" as he termed it--which was to be transmitted to the Emperor after his death.

She was lounging on the bed reading a magazine when someone knocked on the door.

She wasn't actually tired, but reading was relaxing.

He recited a meticulous inventory of everything in the bedroom quarters, including the page number of a book his wife was reading as she remained in bed.

How could I convince my reading public I heard it from the horse's mouth?

Sofi's skill relied mostly on reading the future of a specific soul by touching them, and he'd not let her within miles of a vamp since taking over her guardianship.

She collected what she could find and perched in a chair, reading until sundown, when the hunger pangs hit her again.

He asked, and started reading.

After a while she stopped reading, staring at a picture.

It's like reading a novel!

She was sitting up in bed reading.

Sarah sat in the drawing room reading.

Even as a boy he had intense pleasure in reading St Thomas Aquinas and the Arab commentators of Aristotle, was skilled in the subtleties of the schools, wrote verses, studied music and design, and, avoiding society, loved solitary rambles on the banks of the Po.

The invectives against idolatry of the early Jewish and Christian apologists, of Philo, Minucius Felix, Tertullian, Arnobius, Lactantius and others, are very good reading and throw much light on the question how an ancient pagan conceived of his idols.

The great qualities displayed in this work have been universally acknowledged - conscientiousness, accuracy, judgment and enormous reading.

His reading in Livy taught him to admire the Roman system of employing armies raised from the body of the citizens; and Cesare Borgia's method of gradually substituting the troops of his own duchy for aliens and mercenaries showed him that this plan might be adopted with success by the Italians.

From reading he passed to sleeping, from sleeping to gossip in drawing rooms of the club, from gossip to carousals and women; from carousals back to gossip, reading, and wine.

Boris read 'Poor Liza' aloud to her, and more than once interrupted the reading because of the emotions that choked him.

To Pierre's timid look of inquiry after reading the letter she replied by asking him to go, but to fix a definite date for his return.

He studied her over the rim of his reading glasses, and his eyes warmed with a smile.

If Howie drops into ten or twenty minutes of anyone's life, chance are all he sees is them picking their nose, reading a book or working.

Molly was seated in our living room, reading a book when I arrived.

Right now, she didn't want him reading her mind.