Read

Definitions of "read"

• To examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed characters, words, or sentences). intransitive verb
• To utter or render aloud (written or printed material). intransitive verb
• To have the ability to examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed material in a given language or notation). intransitive verb
• intransitive verb
• To examine and grasp the meaning of (language in a form other than written or printed characters, words, or sentences). intransitive verb
• To examine and grasp the meaning of (a graphic representation). intransitive verb
• intransitive verb
• To discern and interpret the nature or significance of through close examination or sensitive observation. intransitive verb
• To discern or anticipate through examination or observation; descry. intransitive verb
• To determine the intent or mood of. intransitive verb
• intransitive verb
• To attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to. intransitive verb
• To consider (something written or printed) as having a particular meaning or significance. intransitive verb
• To foretell or predict (the future). intransitive verb
• To receive or comprehend (a radio message, for example). intransitive verb
• To study or make a study of. intransitive verb
• To learn or get knowledge of from something written or printed. intransitive verb
• To proofread. intransitive verb
• To have or use as a preferred reading in a particular passage. intransitive verb

The word "read" in example sentences

 Larry later read& line-edited all the novels; we heard read aloud every chap. 1 at semester's end.. [Hoss Men (divided)]

JLenard..read his username phonectically and then read his comment.... [If the Florida GOP Can Do It, So Can the NRSC - Erick’s blog - RedState]

Folks…I just read this on DailyKos..read it if you want to feel better and a tad more hopeful about the press and holding GW to account.. [Think Progress » Bush: I’m Sending More Troops To Iraq No Matter What Congress Does]

As a middle school teacher actively *trying* to get kids out there to read science fiction and fantasy heck, getting kids to *read*, period!. [SFWA President: I’m a Write-In Candidate « Whatever]

He was indeed a prodigious Scholar; he had learn'd the_ Alcoran, _and was well initiated into Human Learning before he was Ten years old; then he studied Logick and Arithmetick, and read over Euclid without any help, only his Master show'd him how to demonstrate the first five or six Propositions; Then he read_ Ptolemy's Almagest,. [The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan]

In short, I hope the reader who is now looking at this preface will carefully read every word in the following pages; and not only _read_, but _remember_, the lessons there taught, and thereby become wiser and better.. [No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey]

If you wanted to educate a child, would you teach him to read one play of Shakespeare, or would you teach him to _read_?. [A Preface to Politics]

I was also forbidden to read the only one of Ouida's books which I wished to read— "Under Two Flags.". [I. Boyhood and Youth]

Now, at this very moment a child's voice from the neighbouring house began repeating in a kind of chant: "_Take and read, take and read_.". [Saint Augustin]

For the text which refers to the man 'who has read the Veda' enjoins works on him who has merely _read_ the texts, and _reading_ there means nothing more than the apprehension of the aggregate of syllables called. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48]

VI. should be read in all parish churches, with the Lessons: _if the curates are able to read_: if not, then by any qualified parishioner.. [John Knox and the Reformation]

To effect this, it was necessary that I should write a book which should be universally read -- not merely by the highly educated portion of the community, for they are able to judge for themselves; but _read by every tradesman and mechanic_; pored over even by milliners 'girls, and boys behind the counter, and thumbed to pieces in every petty circulating library.. [Diary in America, Series Two]

We have heard it so insisted on, no such long while past, by members of the most learned institutions, at the same moment that they expressed more than a doubt of the prudence of enabling the common people to read, literally to _read_, the Bible.. [An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance]

When I am very ill indeed, I can read Scott's novels, and they are almost the only books I can then _read_.. [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge]

The latter, while in the family of a royal Duke, had learned that it was proper to read prayers, already made, and printed to their hands; but Simon said, he should make but few converts if he _read_ his prayers.. [A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.]

Previously #read returned 1 if a node was read, 0 if a node was not read and -1 for an error.. [RubyForge Gems]