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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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