Read vs Get - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.i:
(transitive, or, intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
* 1661 , ,
(transitive, or, intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a ''to'' phrase or an indirect object.
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, chapter=1 To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
To consist of certain text.
Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
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,
(informal, usually, ironic) .
* 2009 , Suzee Vlk et al., The GRE Test for Dummies , Sixth Edition, Wiley Publishing, ISBN 978-0-470-00919-2,
(telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
(British) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
(computing) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
(obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
* (William Tyndale)
(obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iv:
(transgenderism) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
(read)
A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
* Furnivall
* Philip Larkin, Self's the Man
* 2006 , MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)
(label) To obtain; to acquire.
(label) To receive.
* , chapter=8
, title= To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To become.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
* , chapter=8
, title= (label) To cause to become; to bring about.
*
, title= (label) To fetch, bring, take.
* Bible, (w) xxxi. 13
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
(label) To cause to do.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, chapter=5, title= To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
(label) To cause to come or go or move.
(label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
* (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Retro me, Sathana , line 1
(label) To begin (doing something).
(label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
(label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
To be subjected to.
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(label) To be.
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(label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
To catch out, trick successfully.
To perplex, stump.
(label) To find as an answer.
To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
(label) To hear completely; catch.
(label) To .
To beget (of a father).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:
(label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .
* (1625-1686)
Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
*2007 , Tom Dyckhoff,
Offspring.
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 755:
Lineage.
(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
Something gained.
* 2008 , Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion (page 73)
(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
As nouns the difference between read and get
is that read is thing or read can be star while get is offspring or get can be (british|regional) a git or get can be (judaism) a jewish writ of divorce.As a verb get is
(label) to obtain; to acquire.read
English
(wikipedia read)Verb
- But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read / That short reuenge the man may ouertake […].
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
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- The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.
- That sentence reads strangely.
page 263:
- In , it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
page 191:
- Eliminate illogical (read : stupid) answer choices.
- to read''' a hard disk; to '''read''' a port; to '''read the keyboard
- Therefore, I read thee, get to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.
- But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
Usage notes
* When "read" is used transitively with an author's name as the object, it generally means "to look at writing(s) by (the specified person)" (rather than "to recognise (the specified person) as transgender"). Example: "I am going to read Milton before I read His Dark Materials'', so I know what ''His Dark Materials is responding to."Synonyms
* (look at and interpret letters or other information) interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan * (speak aloud words or other information that is written) read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak * (be able to hear) copy, hear, receive * (make a study of) learn, study, look upAntonyms
* (to be recognised as transgender) passDerived terms
* beread * cold read * dictated but not read * have one's head read * lip read/lip-read * mind-read * misread * overread * read along * read between the lines * read dating * read for * read my lips * read-only * read out * read over * read somebody like a book * read somebody the riot act * read someone's mind * read the green * read through * read up * readable * reader * reading * RTFM * sight read * speed-read * underread * unread * WORM/Write Once Read Many * well-readNoun
(en noun)- One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read .
- 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
- 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.
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "read") * cold read * read-out, readoutSee also
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English
(wikipedia get)Etymology 1
From (etyl) geten, from (etyl) 'to seize'. Cognate with Latin prehendo.Verb
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- We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .
- His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
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- Get thee out from this land.
- Heto the strong town of Mega.
- Get him to say his prayers.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
- to get rid of fools and scoundrels
- to get a mile
- Get thee behind me.
- Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl
- I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
- Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.
- it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
Let's move to ..., The Guardian :
- Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.
Usage notes
In dialects featuring the past participle gotten, the form "gotten" is not used universally as the past participle. Rather, inchoative and concessive uses (with meanings such as "obtain" or "become", or "am permitted to") use "gotten" as their past participle, whereas stative uses (with meanings like "have") use "got" as their past participlehttp://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/gotten.html] and [http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm, thus enabling users of "gotten"-enabled dialects to make distinctions such as "I've gotten (received) my marks" vs. "I've got (possess) my marks"; a subtle distinction, to be sure, but a useful one. The first example probably means that the person has received them, and has them somewhere, whereas the second probably means that they have them in their hand right now.
Synonyms
* (obtain) acquire, come by, have * (receive) receive, be given * (fetch) bring, fetch, retrieve * (become) become * (cause to become) cause to be, cause to become, make * (cause to do) make * (arrive) arrive at, reach * come, go, travel * : go, move * (begin) begin, commence, start * : catch, take * : answer * be able to * dig, follow, make sense of, understand * : be * : catch, come down with * con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick * confuse, perplex, stump * (find as an answer) obtain * : catch, nab, nobble * (physically assault) assault, beat, beat up * catch, hear * (getter) getterAntonyms
* (obtain) loseDerived terms
* beget * forget * from the get-go * get about * get a charge out of * get across * get across to * get action * get after * get ahead of oneself * get a look in * get along * get along with * get around * get around to * get at * get away * get away from * get away with * get back * get back to * get behind * get better * get beyond * get by * get carried away * get done * get down * get going * get in * get in with * get into * get into trouble * get it * get it across one's head * get it into one's head * get it on * get it over with * get knotted * get lost * get moving * get off * get off easy * get off lightly * get off with * get on * get one over on * get one's end away * get one's rocks off * get on in years * get on to * get on with * get out * get out of * get over * get-rich-quick * get round * get round to * get some air * get someone's goat * get stuffed * get the goods on * get there * get the time to * get through * get through to * get to * get to be * get together * get under * get up * get up in * get up to * get well soon * get with the program, get with the programme * go-getter * go-getting * got * have gotNoun
(en noun)- ‘You were a high lord's get . Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
- I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.
