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Reapeth vs Readeth - What's the difference?

reapeth | readeth |

As verbs the difference between reapeth and readeth

is that reapeth is archaic third-person singular of reap while readeth is third-person singular of read.

reapeth

English

Verb

(head)
  • (reap)
  • Anagrams

    *

    reap

    English

    Verb

  • To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
  • * Bible, Leviticus
  • When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
  • To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works, in a good or a bad sense.
  • to reap a benefit from exertions
  • * Milton
  • Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
  • * (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
  • For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. Gal.6.7
  • (computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
  • Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
  • (obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * reaper * reap what one sows *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
  • Anagrams

    *

    readeth

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (read)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    read

    English

    (wikipedia read)

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.i:
  • But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read / That short reuenge the man may ouertake […].
  • (transitive, or, intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
  • * 1661 , , 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
  • (transitive, or, intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a ''to'' phrase or an indirect object.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , 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 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement. […]}}
  • To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
  • To consist of certain text.
  • The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.
  • Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
  • That sentence reads strangely.
  • 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, page 263:
  • In , it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
  • (informal, usually, ironic) .
  • * 2009 , Suzee Vlk et al., The GRE Test for Dummies , Sixth Edition, Wiley Publishing, ISBN 978-0-470-00919-2, page 191:
  • Eliminate illogical (read : stupid) answer choices.
  • (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.).
  • to read''' a hard disk; to '''read''' a port; to '''read the keyboard
  • (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
  • * (William Tyndale)
  • Therefore, I read thee, get to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.
  • (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iv:
  • But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
  • (transgenderism) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
  • (read)
  • 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 up

    Antonyms

    * (to be recognised as transgender) pass

    Derived 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-read

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
  • * Furnivall
  • One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read .
  • * Philip Larkin, Self's the Man
  • 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
  • * 2006 , MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)
  • 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, readout

    See also

    (read)

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