Meaning

5 senses
  1. A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.

    I had a read of the evening papers.

  2. (in compounds)Something to be read; a written work.

    His thrillers are always a gripping read.

    something that is read

  3. A person's interpretation or impression of something.

    What's your read of the current political situation?

    On the quarterback's first read of the situation, his target receiver was not open.

  4. An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).

  5. The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.

Examples

10226 sentences
  1. Take a book and read it.

    Візьми книгу та прочитай її! — aandrusiak

    ruВозьми книгу и прочитай её! — al_ex_an_der

    deNimm ein Buch und lies es! — MUIRIEL

  2. Did you read it at all?

    Ти це взагалі читав? — deniko

    ruТы это вообще читал? — sharptoothed

    deHast du es überhaupt gelesen? — RandomUsername

  3. Have you finished reading the novel?

    Ти вже дочитав роман? — uaspeaker

    ruТы уже дочитал роман? — al_ex_an_der

    deHast du aufgehört, den Roman zu lesen? — Espi

  4. Have you read this book already?

    Ти вже читав цю книжку? — deniko

    ruВы уже читали эту книгу? — ae5s

    deHast du dieses Buch schon gelesen? — MUIRIEL

  5. Have you read this book yet?

    Ти вже читав цю книжку? — deniko

    ruВы уже читали эту книгу? — ae5s

    deHast du dieses Buch schon gelesen? — MUIRIEL

Translations

4 languages

Origin

From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret

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”).

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Forms

plural: reads
Singularread
Pluralreads

regular

Word family

19 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • reading a book
  • read this book
  • read the book
  • read that book
  • read the newspaper
  • finished reading
  • read the letter
  • read books
  • to read this
  • reading comic books
  • finished reading the
  • want to read

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
read — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto