verb
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
- To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from.
- To consist of certain text.
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- (usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal)
- (except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- To think, believe; to consider (that).
- To advise; to counsel. See rede.
- To tell; to declare; to recite.
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
Synonyms: clock, copy, hear, receive, interpret, make out, make sense of, scan, understand, learn, study, read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak
noun
- The process of interpreting written language.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- An interpretation.
- Something to read; reading material.
- The extent of what one has read.
- (legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience: readings from the Bible
Pronunciation
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Reading is a 2-meaning word in English. Medium-length words often have several interesting anagrams.
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