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

Noun

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