Read vs. Backread
Readverb
To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
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To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
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(transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
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To consist of certain text.
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(intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
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(transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
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Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
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To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
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To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
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To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
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(obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
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(obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
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(obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
Readverb
To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
Readverb
To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
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past tense of read
Readverb
past participle of read
Readnoun
A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
Readnoun
An instance of calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult.
Readnoun
(in combination) That which is to be read
Readnoun
Rennet. See 3d Reed.
Readnoun
Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
Readnoun
Reading.
Readverb
To advise; to counsel.
Readverb
To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
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To tell; to declare; to recite.
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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.
Readverb
Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
Readverb
To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
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To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
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To give advice or counsel.
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To tell; to declare.
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To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
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To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
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To learn by reading.
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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.
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To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
Read
imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
Readadjective
Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
Readnoun
something that is read;
Readverb
interpret something that is written or printed;
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have or contain a certain wording or form;
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look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed;
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obtain data from magnetic tapes;
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interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky, etc.; also of human behavior;
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interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression;
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indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments;
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be a student of a certain subject;
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audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role;
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to hear and understand;
Readverb
make sense of a language;
Backreadverb
To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
Backreadverb
To interpret what one has read previously in the light of later experience or knowledge
