Definition of Read

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Definition of Read

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

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha

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

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey

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

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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