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read

n. something that is read; "the article was a very good read"

read

n. the act of obtaining data from peripheral devices in a computer

read

v. to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!"

read

v. interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"

read

v. interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"

take

v. interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!"

say

v. have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"

translate, understand, interpret

v. make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"

study, take, learn

v. be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam"

read out aloud, read aloud, speak aloud

v. look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; "The King will read the proclamation at noon"

record, show, register

v. indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"

read

adj. having been read; often used in combination: "a widely read newspaper"

peruse, examine casually

v. examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure"

zoom in on, pore over, examine closely

v. focus one's attention on

decipher, decode, decrypt

v. read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

recite, declaim

v. recite in elocution

present, salute

v. recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position; "When the officers show up, the soldiers have to salute"

present, introduce, acquaint

v. cause to come to know personally; "permit me to acquaint you with my son"; "introduce the new neighbors to the community"

present, deliver, speechify

v. deliver (a speech, oration, or idea); "The commencement speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed the students"

write, communicate by writing, express by writing

v. communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week"

transcribe

v. write out from speech, notes, etc.; "Transcribe the oral history of this tribe"

transcribe

v. make a phonetic transcription of; "The anthropologist transcribed the sentences of the native informant"

transcribe, transliterate

v. rewrite in a different script; "The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated"

give, render

v. bestow; "give homage"; "render thanks"

esteem, repute, think of, look on as, look upon, regard as, take to be

v. look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent"

hold, deem, take for, view as

v. keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; "take for granted"; "view as important"; "hold these truths to be self-evident"; "I hold him personally responsible"

unread

adj. not informed through reading; "he seems to have been wholly unread in political theory"- V.L.Parrington

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