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  1. transitive verb To examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed characters, words, or sentences).
  2. transitive verb To utter or render aloud (written or printed material): read poems to the students.
  3. transitive verb To have the ability to examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed material in a given language or notation): reads Chinese; reads music.
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  • For some good illustrations involving Mandarin Chinese, read this post from Syz on Beijing Sounds, and follow the other Beijing Sounds posts he links to.
  • Case studies in some of the journals Sara read were already dealing with ways to treat girls who entered puberty as early as eight years old. —  Karin Slaughter - Kisscut
  • While hearing the word read, and addressing my heavenly Father in prayer, the streams flowing from the Rock Christ, have refreshed my spirit.—Prevented from meeting with the dear people, I betook myself to prayer. —  Religion in Earnest
  • Couple that with an engaging writing style that quickly pulls readers into a world populated with interesting real life characters, a constantly changing mystery full of expected and unexpected twists, and plenty of action as Jack Marston gets out and gets his hands dirty investigating, this read is a real treat to start off the year. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • And, as we know from hard disks and flash memories, to be able to read is to be able to write. —  Sentient Developments
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study ·  put ·  review ·  interpretation ·  discussion ·  write ·  copy ·  text ·  record ·  exercise ·  page ·  answer

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  1. Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan, to advise; see ar- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also reed, reede, rede; from Middle English reden, earlier ræden, rathen, rothen (a weak verb, preterit redde, radde, past participle red, rad, i-rad), from Anglo-Saxon (a) rǣdan (a weak verb, preterit rǣdde, plural rǣddon, past participle rǣded, rǣdd, gerǣd), mixed with (b) rǣdan, Anglian also rēdan, rēthan (a strong redupl. verb, preterit reórd, past participle rǣden; found only in poetical or Anglian use), counsel, advise, consult. etc. read (a writing, whether aloud or to oneself), =Old Saxon rādan (preterit rēd, past participle girādan), counsel, take counsel upon, provide, =OFries. rēda (preterit rēd), counsel, =Middle Dutch, Dutch raden, counsel, advise, interpret, guess, =Middle Low German rāten, Low German raten, counsel, advise, =Old High German rātan, Middle High German rāten, German raten, rathen (preterit riet, rieth, past participle geraten, gerathen), counsel, advise, interpret, guess, =Icelandic rādha (preterit rēdh, past participle rādhinn), counsel, advise, etc., =Swedish råda, counsel, advise, prevail, rå, can, may, =Danish raade, counsel, rule, control, also interpret, =Gothic (Moesogothic) *rēdan, in comp. ga-rēdan (preterit ga-rairōth), provide for; perhaps akin (having then an orig. present formative -d) to L. reri (past participle ratus), think, deem, consider: see rate, ratio, reason. Some compare Sanskrit √ rādh, be successful, Russian radŭ, glad, happy, ready, Lithuanian rodas, willing, etc. Hence read, n., riddle, aread, etc. The verb read in the already obsolete sense ‘counsel, advise,’ was much affected by Spenser, and in the early modern and Middle English spelling rede which he used has likewise been much affected by his archaizing imitators; but there is no historical ground for a difference in spelling. The preterit read (red) should be written red, as it was formerly; it is exactly parallel with led, preterit of lead, and with let, preterit of let (infinitive formerly lete, with long vowel).
  2. Pp. of read, v.
  3. Earlymod. English also rede; from Middle English rede, from Anglo-Saxon rǣd =Old Saxon rād =OFries. rēd =D. raad =Middle Low German rād, Low German rad =Old High German Middle High German rāt, German rat, rath =Icelandic rādh =Swedish råd =Danish raad, counsel, advice; from the orig. verb: see read, v. In the sense ‘counsel, advice,’ the noun is used archaically, in the spelling rede, like the verb.
 

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