read
Definition of read:
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part of speech: verb
To perform the act of reading: to practice much reading: to appear in reading:- pa. t. and pa. p. read ( red).
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part of speech: verb
To utter aloud written or printed words: to peruse: to comprehend: to study.
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part of speech: adjective
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part of speech: verb
To pronounce or give utterance to that which the written symbols placed before the eyes are meant to convey; to peruse, as a book, either silently or aloud; to discover by characters or marks; to study, as a student; to perform the act of reading; to be studious; to know by reading or observation.
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Common misspellings:
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- cheak (0.6%)
- reand (1.1%)
- reat (1.1%)
- rewad (0.6%)
- reasd (2.3%)
- gread (3.4%)
- readh (0.6%)
- reaad (5.7%)
- rread (0.6%)
- raed (8.0%)
- aread (1.7%)
- trad (0.6%)
- readt (2.8%)
- rad (15.3%)
- rean (1.1%)
- rea (13.1%)
- raead (1.1%)
- readd (4.5%)
- reade (3.4%)
- readl (1.7%)
- ead (9.1%)
- readed (7.4%)
- reas (1.7%)
- reead (4.0%)
- iew (0.6%)
- reac (0.6%)
- rtead (1.1%)
- resd (2.8%)
- hread (0.6%)
- reaed (1.1%)
- ra (0.6%)
- readf (0.6%)
- reddy (0.6%)
Usage examples for read:
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Mr. Hume," he replied, " I read your mind.
"First Person Paramount" – Ambrose Pratt -
I read my mother's thoughts, and for that matter, Fred Plaice's thoughts, too.
"Tinker's Dam" – Joseph Tinker -
Did you ever read 'Hamlet'?
"The Four Feathers" – A. E. W. Mason -
Read that, and tell me if you don't think so.
"The League of the Leopard" – Harold Bindloss
