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Definition of read :
1. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
2. imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
3. Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
4. of Read
5. Reading.
6. Rennet. See 3d Reed.
7. Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
8. To advise; to counsel.
9. To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
10. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
11. To give advice or counsel.
12. To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
13. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
14. To learn by reading.
15. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
16. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
17. To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
18. To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
19. To tell; to declare.
20. To tell; to declare; to recite.
Synonyms:
adopt, make out, use up, hit the books, immortalize, consider, memorise, get, skim, demonstrate, look at, order, claim, require, drive, picture, ask, canvas, necessitate, represent, have, consume, conceive, examine, transform, enunciate, ingest, file, fathom, convey, tape, analyse, hire, establish, ascertain, depict, guide, evince, train, check, articulate, empathise, catch, rent, sound out, run down, instruct, present, put down, accept, get word, film, construe, evidence, canvass, select, analyze, demo, scan, subscribe to, enounce, determine, con, sense, lead, get hold of, deal, strike, bring, state, say, shew, glance over, need, assume, remove, sympathise, involve, take in, designate, record, hear, exhibit, realise, mark, direct, make, savvy, interpret, shoot, choose, engage, take aim, pick out, rede, translate, see, render, subscribe, occupy, twig, enjoin, exact, point, charter, pick up, admit, meditate, register, lease, larn, aver, infer, memorialise, prove, dig, indicate, call for, withdraw, tell, apprehend, memorize, contemplate, demand, show up, postulate, fill, express, acquire, rake, aim, sympathize, show, hold, carry, suppose, get a line, conduct, find out, memorialize, testify, empathize, enter, compass, pronounce, take, take up, take on, ken, immortalise, contain, cross-file, contract, pack, commemorate, follow, usher, watch, get wind, submit, bear witness, teach, allege, take away
examined (part of speech: verb)
gone over, checked over, scanned, investigated
learned (part of speech: verb)
discovered, studied, absorbed, gleaned, grasped, comprehended, understood, digested, realized, learned, mastered, assimilated
learn (part of speech: verb)
discover, study, absorb, glean, grasp, comprehend, understand, digest, realize, learn, master, assimilate
Usage examples:
- And now, for the first time, he could not read her thought. - "Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children", Julian Hawthorne.
- What does she read? - "A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties", Charles Major.
- The captain took it, and began to read. - "A Hero of Romance", Richard Marsh.