readverb
uk/riːd/us/riːd/read, read uk/red/us/red/read verb (UNDERSTAND)
A1 [ I or T ] to look at words or symbols and understand what they mean:
A2 [ I or T ] to say the words that are printed or written:
C2 [ T ] to understand and give a particular meaning to written information, a statement, a situation, etc.:
[ I or T ] How you read a piece of writing, or how it reads, is how it seems when you read it:
[ T ] (especially when communicating by radio), to hear and understand someone:
to read aloud to someone until they go to sleep:
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- I didn't read the contract fully before I signed it but I'm counting the cost now.
- He learned to read at the early age of three.
- The driver was peering into the distance trying to read the road sign.
- None of the committee's proposals will matter a jot if no-one reads their report.
- I've been put off reading the book by all the hype.
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Reading
- cross-reference
- deconstruct
- deconstruction
- devour
- dyslexia
- flip
- hermeneutic
- leaf through sth
- peruse
- read sth over/through
- reader
- readership
- reading
- reading knowledge
- riffle
- run your eye over sth idiom
- scan
- skim
- thumb
- thumb through sth
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read verb (STATE)
[ L ] (of something written or printed) to have or give the stated information or meaning:
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Writing & typing
- asterisk
- borrow
- chalk
- co-author
- compose
- copy
- creative writing
- enter
- fair sth out
- fire
- ghostwrite
- misspell
- orthography
- record
- run
- scrawl
- transcription
- typing
- write sth up
- written
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read verb (STUDY)
[ I or T ] UK formal or specialized law to study at university or to study for a specialized qualification:
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Learning & knowing
- assimilate
- autodidact
- blended learning
- bone up
- brain training
- by-heart
- deskill
- feel
- gen up
- hit
- know better (than sb) idiom
- knowable
- mug
- mug (sth) up
- pick sth up
- quick
- reskill
- revision
- specialize
- tell
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Idiom(s)
Phrasal verb(s)
readnoun [ S ]
uk/riːd/us/riːd/C2 the act of reading something:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reading
- cross-reference
- deconstruct
- deconstruction
- devour
- dyslexia
- flip
- hermeneutic
- leaf through sth
- peruse
- read sth over/through
- reader
- readership
- reading
- reading knowledge
- riffle
- run your eye over sth idiom
- scan
- skim
- thumb
- thumb through sth
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