read

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The development from ‘advise’ to ‘interpret, interpret letters, read’ is unique to English among Germanic languages. Compare.

Verb



 * 1)  To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
 * 2)  To speak aloud words or other information that is written.
 * 3)  To read work(s) written by (a named author).
 * 4)  To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
 * 5) To consist of certain text.
 * 6)  Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
 * 7)  To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one);.
 * 8) * 1832, John Lemprière et al., Bibliotheca classica, Seventh Edition, W. E. Dean, page 263:
 * In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
 * 1)  To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
 * 2)  To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
 * 3)  To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
 * 4)  To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
 * 5)  To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
 * 6)  To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
 * 7) * 1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning):
 * Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade
 * 1) * 2013, Queer Looks, page 114 (discussing Paris is Burning and "the ball world"):
 * [One] assumes that such language contests are racially motivated&mdash;black folks talking back to white folks. However, the ball world makes it clear that blacks can read each other too.
 * 1)  To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
 * 2)  To think, believe; to consider (that).
 * 3)  To advise; to counsel. See.
 * 4)  To tell; to declare; to recite.
 * 1)  To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one);.
 * 2) * 1832, John Lemprière et al., Bibliotheca classica, Seventh Edition, W. E. Dean, page 263:
 * In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
 * 1)  To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
 * 2)  To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
 * 3)  To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
 * 4)  To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
 * 5)  To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
 * 6)  To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
 * 7) * 1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning):
 * Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade
 * 1) * 2013, Queer Looks, page 114 (discussing Paris is Burning and "the ball world"):
 * [One] assumes that such language contests are racially motivated&mdash;black folks talking back to white folks. However, the ball world makes it clear that blacks can read each other too.
 * 1)  To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
 * 2)  To think, believe; to consider (that).
 * 3)  To advise; to counsel. See.
 * 4)  To tell; to declare; to recite.
 * 1)  To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
 * 2)  To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
 * 3)  To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
 * 4) * 1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning):
 * Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade
 * 1) * 2013, Queer Looks, page 114 (discussing Paris is Burning and "the ball world"):
 * [One] assumes that such language contests are racially motivated&mdash;black folks talking back to white folks. However, the ball world makes it clear that blacks can read each other too.
 * 1)  To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
 * 2)  To think, believe; to consider (that).
 * 3)  To advise; to counsel. See.
 * 4)  To tell; to declare; to recite.
 * Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade
 * 1) * 2013, Queer Looks, page 114 (discussing Paris is Burning and "the ball world"):
 * [One] assumes that such language contests are racially motivated&mdash;black folks talking back to white folks. However, the ball world makes it clear that blacks can read each other too.
 * 1)  To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
 * 2)  To think, believe; to consider (that).
 * 3)  To advise; to counsel. See.
 * 4)  To tell; to declare; to recite.
 * 1)  To advise; to counsel. See.
 * 2)  To tell; to declare; to recite.
 * 1)  To tell; to declare; to recite.
 * 1)  To tell; to declare; to recite.

Usage notes

 * Unlike the much less common which is set off in brackets, admonitions for the reader to emend a quote to read a separate meaning are typically put within parentheses.
 * The past tense and past participle are pronounced /ɹɛd/.

Translations

 * Georgian:
 * Guaraní:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Korean: ,
 * Romanian:

Noun

 * 1) A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
 * 2)  Something to be read; a written work.
 * His thrillers are always a gripping read.
 * 1) A person's interpretation or impression of something.
 * What's your read of the current political situation?
 * 1)  An instance of reading.
 * 2) * 1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning):
 * [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]."
 * 1)  The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
 * 1) * 1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning):
 * [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]."
 * 1)  The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
 * 1)  The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
 * 1)  The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string

Etymology 2
From, , , from , , conjugations of ; see above.

Etymology
From, from , from <.

Germanic cognates: 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, ), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬.

Indo-European cognates: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) red

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  red