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says
English
Alternative forms
- saies (obsolete)
- sais (nonstandard)
- saith, sayeth (archaic)
Pronunciation
- (verb): enPR: s?z, IPA(key): /s?z/, /se?z/
- Rhymes: -?z
Verb
says
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of say
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- She says it is beautiful.
- She says it is beautiful.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
Noun
says
- plural of say
Anagrams
- Yass, assy, yass
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read
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English reden, from Old English r?dan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-Germanic *r?dan? (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh?d?- (“to arrange”). Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess, counsel, rede”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”). The development from ‘advise, interpret’ to ‘interpret letters, read’ is unique to English among Germanic languages. Compare rede.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?id/
- enPR: r?d, IPA(key): /?i?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
- Homophones: reed, rede
Verb
read (third-person singular simple present reads, present participle reading, simple past read, past participle read or (archaic, dialectal) readen)
- (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
- Synonym: read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak
- (transitive) To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from.
- To consist of certain text.
- (ergative) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- 1832, John Lemprière et al., Bibliotheca classica, Seventh Edition, W. E. Dean, page 263:
- In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
- 1832, John Lemprière et al., Bibliotheca classica, Seventh Edition, W. E. Dean, page 263:
- (informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- 2009, Suzee Vlk et al., The GRE Test for Dummies, Sixth Edition, Wiley Publishing, ?ISBN, page 191:
- Eliminate illogical (read: stupid) answer choices.
- 2009, Suzee Vlk et al., The GRE Test for Dummies, Sixth Edition, Wiley Publishing, ?ISBN, page 191:
- (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- Synonyms: copy, hear, receive
- (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal)
- (transitive, Commonwealth of Nations, except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- Synonyms: learn, study
- (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read […] / That short reuenge the man may ouertake […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
- 1528, William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christen man
- Therfore, I read thee, get to Gods word, and thereby trye all doctrine […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 1, p. 6,[2]
- This is the wandring wood, this Errours den,
- A monster vile, whom God and man does hate:
- Therefore I read beware.
- 1528, William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christen man
- (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- (transitive) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- Synonym: clock
- Antonym: pass
- (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- 1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning):
- Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade […]
- 2013, Queer Looks, page 114 (discussing Paris is Burning and "the ball world"):
- [One] assumes that such language contests are racially motivated—black folks talking back to white folks. However, the ball world makes it clear that blacks can read each other too.
- 1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning):
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
read (plural reads)
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- 1879, Frederick James Furnivall, letter to the editor of "The Spectator"
- One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read.
- 1958, Philip Larkin, Self's the Man
- And when he finishes supper / Planning to have a read at the evening paper / It's Put a screw in this wall— / He has no time at all […]
- 2006, MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)
- In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.
- 1879, Frederick James Furnivall, letter to the editor of "The Spectator"
- (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
- His thrillers are always a gripping read.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- What's your read of the current political situation?
- (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- 1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning):
- [As] Corey points out, "if you and I are both black queens then we can't call each other black queens because that's not a read. That's a [fact]."
- 1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning):
- (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English redde (simple past), red, rad (past participle), from Old English r?dde (simple past), (?e)r?ded (past participle), conjugations of r?dan (“to read”); see above.
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?d, IPA(key): /??d/
- Rhymes: -?d
- Homophones: red, redd
Verb
read
- inflection of read:
- simple past tense
- past participle
See also
Pages starting with “read”.
Anagrams
- 'eard, DARE, Dare, Dear, Rade, Reda, ared, dare, dear, rade
Estonian
Noun
read
- nominative plural of rida
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rowd?ós < *h?rewd?-.
Germanic cognates: Old Frisian r?d (West Frisian read), Old Saxon r?d (Low German root, rod), Dutch rood, Old High German r?t (German rot), Old Norse rauðr (Danish rød, Swedish röd, Icelandic rauður), Gothic ???????????????????? (rauþs).
Indo-European cognates: Ancient Greek ??????? (eruthrós), Latin ruber, Old Irish rúad, Lithuanian ra?das, Russian ?????? (rudój).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ræ???d/
Adjective
r?ad
- red
Declension
Derived terms
- r?adnes
Descendants
- Middle English: read, rede, red
- English: red
- Scots: rede, reid
- Yola: reed
Swedish
Verb
read
- past participle of rea.
Anagrams
- edra, reda
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian r?d
Adjective
read
- red
Inflection
Derived terms
- reahart
Further reading
- “read”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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