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Exact Match:

read

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

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

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

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

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"

obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"

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

audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"

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

Synonyms:

• absorb,
• announce,
• appreciate,
• apprehend,
• assign to,
• assimilate,
• be with one,
• bone,
• catch,
• catch on,
• comprehend,
• con,
• conceive,
• construe,
• contemplate,
• correct copy,
• debate,
• decipher,
• declaim,
• define,
• deliver,
• demagogue,
• describe,
• diagnose,
• dig,
• digest,
• drill,
• elocute,
• elucubrate,
• examine,
• fathom,
• feel out,
• fly a kite,
• follow,
• get,
• get hold of,
• get the drift,
• get the idea,
• get the picture,
• go in for,
• go over,
• grasp,
• grind,
• harangue,
• have,
• have it taped,
• hold forth,
• impute to,
• indicate,
• interpret,
• ken,
• know,
• learn,
• look over,
• lucubrate,
• major in,
• mark,
• master,
• minor in,
• mouth,
• orate,
• out-herod Herod,
• perorate,
• peruse,
• plunge into,
• pore over,
• practice,
• present,
• probe,
• proofread,
• rabble-rouse,
• rant,
• read for,
• read into,
• read law,
• realize,
• recite,
• record,
• regard studiously,
• register,
• restudy,
• review,
• rodomontade,
• savvy,
• say,
• scan,
• seize,
• seize the meaning,
• sense,
• skim,
• sound,
• sound out,
• specialize in,
• spiel,
• spout,
• study,
• study for,
• study to be,
• swot,
• take,
• take in,
• take it that,
• take to mean,
• tub-thump,
• understand,
• understand by,
• vet,
• wade through