Word: read Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”). Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”), Persian رده (rade, “to order, to arrange, class”). In West Germanic the verb had a sense “interpret”, which developed further into “interpret letters” in English and “interpret by intuition, guess” on the continent. Compare rede. Pronunciation: /ɹiːd/, /ɹid/, /rɛːd/, /riːd/ 1. To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Have you read this book? Example: He doesn’t like to read. 2. To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. Labels: ergative, intransitive, transitive Example: Arabic reads right to left. Example: That sentence reads strangely. 3. To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. Labels: intransitive, metonymically, transitive Example: At the moment I'm reading Milton. 4. To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object) Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: He read us a passage from his new book. Example: All right, class, who wants to read next? 5. To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from. Labels: transitive Example: She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water. Example: I can read his feelings in his face. 6. To consist of certain text. Example: On the door hung a sign that read "No admittance". 7. To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text. Labels: ergative Example: In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron. Example: The sign of coefficient a(3) in the general formula of Table 2 should be plus instead of minus. Thus, the formula should read […] 8. To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text. Labels: broadly, ergative, humorous, imperative, ironic, usually Example: Our school focuses primarily on the liberal arts (read "useless degrees"). Example: Eliminate illogical (read: stupid) answer choices. 9. To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection. Labels: transitive Example: Do you read me? Example: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL? 10. To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal). Labels: transitive Example: A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance. 11. To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university. Labels: Commonwealth, transitive Example: I am reading theology at university. Example: Crabbe wanted him to go to England, to read for a degree there. 12. To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: to read a hard disk Example: to read a port 13. To recognise (someone) as being transgender. Labels: transitive Example: Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me. 14. To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way. Example: I've seen drags "read" an unattractive transsexual until she was almost in tears. Example: Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade […] 15. To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones. 16. To think, believe; to consider (that). Labels: obsolete Example: But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read[…] / That short reuenge the man may ouertake […] 17. To advise; to counsel. See rede. Labels: obsolete Example: [T]herfore / I red the [thee] / gete the [thee] to Gods vvorde ãd [and] therby trye all doctrine and agenſt that receave nothinge. Example: This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, / A monster vile, whom God and man does hate: / Therefore I read beware. 18. To tell; to declare; to recite. Labels: obsolete Example: But read how art thou named, and of what kin. 19. To predict another player's actions before they perform them or before they are apparent.