Read
Rennet. See 3d Reed.
of Read
To advise; to counsel.
To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
To tell; to declare; to recite.
To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
To give advice or counsel.
To tell; to declare.
To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
To learn by reading.
To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
Reading.
imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
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Read Quotations
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham Lincoln
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
Read Translations
read in Afrikaans is lees
read in Dutch is lezen
read in Finnish is lukea
read in French is lisent, lue, lire, lisons, lurent, lisez, lues, lu
read in German is gelesen, lesen, einlesen
read in Italian is leggere
read in Norwegian is lese
read in Portuguese is lido, ler
read in Spanish is leer
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