read/reed/rede
read (rēd)
Verb. Transitive
- To examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed characters, words, or sentences).
- To utter or render aloud (written or printed material): read poems to the students.
- To have the ability to examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed material in a given language or notation): reads Chinese; reads music.
- To determine the intent or mood of: can read your mind like a book; a hard person to read.
- To foretell or predict (the future).
Verb. Intransitive
- To examine and grasp the meaning of printed or written characters, as of words or music.
- To speak aloud the words that one is reading: read to the children every night.
- To learn by reading: read about the storm in the paper today.
- To study.
- To have a particular wording: Recite the poem exactly as it reads.
Adjective
- Informed by reading; learned: only sparsely read in fields outside my profession.
reed (rēd)
Noun
- Any of various tall perennial grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites or Arundo, having hollow stems, broad leaves, and large plumelike terminal panicles.
- Music. A primitive wind instrument made of a hollow reed stalk.
rede (rēd)
Verb. Transitive
- To give advice to; counsel.
- To interpret; explain.
Noun
- Advice or counsel.
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