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Pronounce Read as R EH AH D.

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    Read phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'read'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of read: /rɛæd/
    • Modern IPA representation of read: /rɛæd/

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    List of meaning for read

    read(verb)

    something that is read

    "the article was a very good read"

    read(verb)

    interpret something that is written or printed

    "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"

    read, say(verb)

    have or contain a certain wording or form

    "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"

    read(verb)

    look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed

    "The King will read the proclamation at noon"

    read, scan(verb)

    obtain data from magnetic tapes

    "This dictionary can be read by the computer"

    read(verb)

    interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior

    "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"

    take, read(verb)

    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!"

    learn, study, read, take(verb)

    be a student of a certain subject

    "She is reading for the bar exam"

    read, register, show, record(verb)

    indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments

    "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"

    read(verb)

    audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role

    "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"

    read(verb)

    to hear and understand

    "I read you loud and clear!"

    understand, read, interpret, translate(verb)

    make sense of a language

    "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"

    to go over and mentally take in the content of

    he always reads the newspaper in the morning as he eats breakfast

    to tell of or describe beforehand

    the psychic claimed to be able to read his future

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    read in sentence

    1. Once the drama club read the libretto, they knew that their musical would be a hit with the school.

    2. Doctors are notorious for their very bad handwriting, so much so that no one can ever read their signature.

    3. When I read the poet’s works, I was moved by the melodious euphony of her words.

    4. As the Christian book reviewer read the erotic novel, she underwent an intense feeling of revulsion.

    5. The author’s suggested that readers read the first book in the series before the sequel, as it proved to be allusive to the original.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term read

    I don't want to read any more of it, write any more of it, and I don't even want to talk about it anymore.

    – Philip Roth

    No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....

    – Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109

    All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"

    – Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"

    Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

    – Charles Caleb Colton

    As I've already told my council of advisers, I read all of the Pope's speeches, if the Pope continues to speak like this, sooner or later I will start praying again and I will return to the Catholic Church -- and I'm not saying this jokingly.

    – Raul Castro

    I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

    – Harry S Truman

    The idea is simple: when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to. No one can see inside that message, not cybercriminals. Not hackers. Not oppressive regimes. Not even us.

    – WhatsApp

    It's hard to read the thing and not come away satisfied that they have done not just a much better job but a more thoughtful job, i think the result is something that is much more comprehensive, much more accurate and much less agenda-driven.

    – Frederick Hess

    Everyone in the family had read it and there was something about that article that spoke to me, there’s so much complexity to it: There’s a war element, a love story between Tess and Gil, there’s this idea that, generations later, two girls of these war-torn families can come together to bridge a gap.

    – Kelly Cowin

    The only way to accelerate the life experience process, since they're just kids and don't have a lot of life experiences, is to go on a journey learning from other people's life experiences, so when you read a book with your children, ask them questions about how the main character might be feeling or what motivates the main character or what you would do if you were in their shoes.

    – Sofia Dickens

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