Read vs Readd - What's the difference?
read | readd |
(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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, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, 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)
As verbs the difference between read and readd
is that read is to think, believe; to consider (that) while readd is to add again.As a noun read
is a reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.As a proper noun Read
is {{surname|from=Old English}}, a less common spelling variant of Reid.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.
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- 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.