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Read and Red Definitions

Read

To examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed characters, words, or sentences).

Red

The hue of the long-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 630 to 750 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue resembles that of blood; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.

Read

To utter or render aloud (written or printed material)
Read poems to the students.

Red

A pigment or dye having a red hue.

Read

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.
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Red

Something that has a red hue.

Read

To examine and grasp the meaning of (language in a form other than written or printed characters, words, or sentences)
Reading Braille.
Reading sign language.

Red

Often Red A Communist.

Read

To examine and grasp the meaning of (a graphic representation)
Reading a map.

Red

A revolutionary activist.
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Read

To discern and interpret the nature or significance of through close examination or sensitive observation
The tracker read the trail for signs of game.

Red

The condition of being in debt or operating at a loss
The firm has been in the red all year.

Read

To discern or anticipate through examination or observation; descry
"I can read abandonment in a broken door or shattered window" (William H. Gass).

Red

Having a color resembling that of blood.

Read

To determine the intent or mood of
Can read your mind like a book.
A hard person to read.

Red

Reddish in color or having parts that are reddish in color
A red dog.
A red oak.

Read

To attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to
Read her words differently than I did.

Red

Having a reddish or coppery skin color.

Read

To consider (something written or printed) as having a particular meaning or significance
Read the novel as a parable.

Red

Often Red Often Offensive Of or being a Native American.

Read

To foretell or predict (the future).

Red

Having a ruddy or flushed complexion
Red with embarrassment.

Read

To receive or comprehend (a radio message, for example)
I read you loud and clear.

Red

Relating to or being a red state.

Read

To study or make a study of
Read history as an undergraduate.

Red

Often Red Communist.

Read

To learn or get knowledge of from something written or printed
Read that interest rates would continue to rise.

Red

Having red#Noun as its color.
The girl wore a red skirt.

Read

To proofread.

Red

(of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
Her hair had red highlights.

Read

To have or use as a preferred reading in a particular passage
For change read charge.

Red

(of the skin) With a red hue due to embarrassment or sunburn.

Read

To indicate, register, or show
The dial reads 32°.

Red

Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare of the spades or clubs suits
I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.

Read

(Computers) To obtain (data) from a storage medium, such as an optical disc.

Red

Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:

Read

(Genetics) To decode or translate (a sequence of messenger RNA) into an amino acid sequence in a polypeptide chain.

Red

Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
The red-black grand coalition in Germany

Read

To examine and grasp the meaning of printed or written characters, as of words or music.

Red

(US politics) The U.S. Republican Party.
A red state
A red Congress

Read

To speak aloud the words that one is reading
Read to the children every night.

Red

Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations

Read

To learn by reading
Read about the storm in the paper today.

Red

(astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

Read

To study.

Red

(particle physics) Having a color charge of red.

Read

To have a particular wording
Recite the poem exactly as it reads.

Red

Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.
Red can be seen as hot or angry.

Read

To contain a specific meaning
As the law reads, the defendant is guilty.

Red

(countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; usually capitalized a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

Read

To indicate, register, or show a measurement or figure
How does your new watch read?.

Red

One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.

Read

To have a specified character or quality for the reader
Your poems read well.

Red

Red wine.

Read

Something that is read
"The book is a page-turner as well as a very satisfying read" (Frank Conroy).

Red

(countable) Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.

Read

An interpretation or assessment
Gave us her read of the political situation.

Red

A red kangaroo.

Read

Informed by reading; learned
Only sparsely read in fields outside my profession.

Red

A redshank.

Read

To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
Have you read this book?
He doesn’t like to read.

Red

An American Indian.

Read

To speak aloud words or other information that is written. often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object
He read us a passage from his new book.
All right, class, who wants to read next?

Red

(slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.

Read

(transitive) To read work(s) written by (a named author).
At the moment I'm reading Milton.

Red

(informal) A red light a traffic signal

Read

(transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.
I can read his feelings in his face.

Red

(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.

Read

To consist of certain text.
On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance".
The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.

Red

Usually in the phrase "bowl of red".

Read

(ergative) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
Arabic reads right to left.
That sentence reads strangely.

Red

(informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.

Read

To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
Our school focuses primarily on the classical authors (read "dead white males").

Red

Tomato ketchup.

Read

Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.

Red

(archaic) rede

Read

To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
Do you read me?

Red

To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; - generally with up; as, to red up a house.

Read

To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance.

Red

Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part.
Your color, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.

Read

To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
I am reading theology at university.

Red

The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.

Read

To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
To read a hard disk
To read a port
To read the keyboard

Red

A red pigment.

Read

To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.

Red

The menses.

Read

To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.

Red

The quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

Read

(go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.

Red

A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

Read

(obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).

Red

Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

Read

(obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.

Red

The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue;
The company operated at a loss last year
The company operated in the red last year

Read

(obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.

Red

Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Read

Inflection of [[:en:#Etymology_1

Red

Characterized by violence or bloodshed;
Writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days
Fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing
Convulsed with red rage

Read

A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.

Red

(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion;
Crimson with fury
Turned red from exertion
With puffy reddened eyes
Red-faced and violent
Flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment

Read

(in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
His thrillers are always a gripping read.

Red

Red with or characterized by blood;
Waving our red weapons o'er our heads
The Red Badge of Courage
The red rules of tooth and claw

Read

A person's interpretation or impression of something.
What's your read of the current political situation?

Read

An instance of calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult.

Read

(biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string

Read

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

Read

Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.

Read

Reading.
One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read.

Read

To advise; to counsel.
Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.

Read

To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.

Read

To tell; to declare; to recite.
But read how art thou named, and of what kin.

Read

To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille.
Well could he rede a lesson or a story.

Read

Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
Who is't can read a woman?

Read

To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
An armed corse did lie,In whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
Those about herFrom her shall read the perfect ways of honor.

Read

To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.

Read

To give advice or counsel.

Read

To tell; to declare.

Read

To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.

Read

To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.

Read

To learn by reading.
I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence.

Read

To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.

Read

To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.

Read

Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
A poet . . . well read in Longinus.

Read

Something that is read;
The article was a very good read

Read

Interpret something that is written or printed;
Read the advertisement
Have you read Salman Rushdie?

Read

Have or contain a certain wording or form;
The passage reads as follows
What does the law say?

Read

Look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed;
The King will read the proclamation at noon

Read

Obtain data from magnetic tapes;
This dictionary can be read by the computer

Read

Interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky, etc.; also of human behavior;
She read the sky and predicted rain
I can't read his strange behavior
The gypsy read his fate in the crystal ball

Read

Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression;
I read this address as a satire
How should I take this message?
You can't take credit for this!

Read

Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments;
The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero
The gauge read `empty'

Read

Be a student of a certain subject;
She is reading for the bar exam

Read

Audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role;
He is auditioning for `Julius Cesar' at Stratford this year

Read

To hear and understand;
I read you loud and clear!

Read

Make sense of a language;
She understands French
Can you read Greek?

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