amerikai:
brit:
1. To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
Have you read this book?
Szinonimák: interpret, make out, make sense of, scan, understand
2. To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
All right, class, who wants to read next?
Szinonimák: read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak
3. To read work(s) written by (a named author).
At the moment I'm reading Milton.
4. To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from.
I can read his feelings in his face.
5. To consist of certain text.
On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance".
6. Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
Arabic reads right to left.
7. To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
8. (usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
9. To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
Do you read me?
Szinonimák: copy, hear, receive
10. To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal)
A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance.
11. (except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
I am reading theology at university.
Szinonimák: learn, study
12. To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
to read a hard disk; to read a port; to read the keyboard
13. To think, believe; to consider (that).
14. To advise; to counsel. See rede.
15. To tell; to declare; to recite.
16. To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.
Szinonimák: clock
Ellentétek: pass
17. To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
1. The process of interpreting written language.
2. The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
3. A value indicated by a measuring device.
a speedometer reading.
4. An event at which written material is read aloud.
a poetry reading.
5. An interpretation.
a reading of the current situation.
6. Something to read; reading material.
7. The extent of what one has read.
He's a man of good reading.
8. (legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
9. A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience: readings from the Bible