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Definition read

Etymology 1

From Middle English reden, from Old English r?dan (�to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read�), from Proto-Germanic *r?dan? (�advise, counsel�), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh?d?- (�to arrange�). Cognate with Scots rede, red (�to advise, counsel, decipher, read�), Saterland Frisian r�ide (�to advise, counsel�), West Frisian riede (�to advise, counsel�), Dutch raden (�to advise; guess, counsel, rede�), German raten (�to advise; guess�), Danish r�de (�to advise�), Swedish r�da (�to advise, counsel�). The development from �advise, interpret� to �interpret letters, read� is unique to English among Germanic languages. Compare rede.

Verb

read (third-person singular simple present reads, present participle reading, simple past read, past participle read, or (archaic, dialectal) readen)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
2. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
3. (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from.
4. To consist of certain text.
5. (ergative) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
6. (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
7. (informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
8. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
9. (transitive, Commonwealth of Nations, except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
10. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
11. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
12. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
13. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
14. (transitive) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
15. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.

Noun

read (plural reads)

1. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
2. (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
3. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (�calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult�).

Etymology 2

From Middle English redde (simple past), red, rad (past participle), from Old English r?dde (simple past), (?e)r?ded (past participle), conjugations of r?dan (�to read�); see above.

Verb

read

1. inflection of read:
   1. past
   2. past participle

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