Something that is read.

Interpret something that is written or printed.

Dutch: lezen

Have or contain a certain wording or form:
— The passage reads as follows.

synonym: say.

Dutch: luiden, opgeven, opzeggen, staan, zeggen

Look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed.

Dutch: horen, lezen, voorlezen

Obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources:
— This dictionary can be read by the computer.

synonym: scan.

Dutch: inlezen

Interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior.

Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression:
— I read this address as a satire.

synonym: take.

Dutch: gelezen worden, veronderstellen, nemen, lezen

Be a student of a certain subject:
— She is reading for the bar exam.

synonyms: learn, study, take.

Roget 539: learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning.    acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, learn by rote.    read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through; dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves.    study; be studious etc. adj.. [study intensely] burn the midnight oil, consume the midnight oil, mind one's book; cram.    go to school, go to college, go to the university; matriculate; serve an apprenticeship, serve one's apprenticeship, serve one's time; learn one's trade; be informed etc. 527; be taught etc. 537.    [stop going to school voluntarily (intransitive)] drop out, leave school, quit school; graduate; transfer; take a leave.    [cause to stop going to school (transitive)] dismiss, expel, kick out of school.    [stop going to school involuntarily] flunk out; be dismissed etc. ... show more

Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments:
— The gauge read `empty'.

synonyms: record, register, show.

Dutch: aflezen

Audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role.

To hear and understand.

Make sense of a language:
— Can you read Greek?.

synonyms: interpret, translate, understand.

Roget 522: interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into, turn into; transfuse the sense of.    find out etc. 480.1 the meaning of, etc. 516 read; spell out, make out; decipher, unravel, disentangle; find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve; read between the lines.    account for; find the cause, tell the cause of etc. 153; throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon; clear up, clarify, elucidate.    illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate; popularize etc. (render intelligible) 518.    take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense; understand by, put a construction on, be given to understand.    ... show more