read
Meanings
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
- To read a work or works written by the named author.
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
- To consist of certain text.
- To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- Something to be read; a written work.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
- simple past and past participle of read
- A surname from Old English, a less common spelling variant of Reid.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7634).
- A township in Clayton County, Iowa, United States.
- A township in Butler County, Nebraska, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
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Etymology
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.