Read vs Subscribe - 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)
(ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.
To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.
To believe or agree with a theory or an idea.
To pay money to be a member of an organization.
To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.
To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.
(business, and, finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.
To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.
* Milman
(archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
* Sir Thomas More
(obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
(obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.
(obsolete) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
* Shakespeare
In obsolete terms the difference between read and subscribe
is that read is to tell; to declare; to recite while subscribe is to yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.In transitive terms the difference between read and subscribe
is that read is to substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text while subscribe is to sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.In intransitive terms the difference between read and subscribe
is that read is of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way while subscribe is to contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.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.
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
Verb
(subscrib)- Would you like to subscribe''' or '''subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?
- I don’t subscribe to that theory.
- 1913:' Theodore Roosevelt, ''Autobiography'' — under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would '''subscribe''' to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would ' subscribe most heavily to beat me;
- Each man subscribed ten dollars.
- 1776:' Adam Smith, ''The Wealth of Nations'' — The capital which had been ' subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.
- Parties subscribe''' a covenant or contract; a man '''subscribes a bond.
- Officers subscribe''' their official acts, and secretaries and clerks '''subscribe copies or records.
- All the bishops subscribed the sentence.
- [They] subscribed their names under them.
- (Shakespeare)
- I will subscribe him a coward.