read (original) (raw)
read verb (STATE)
read verb (STUDY)
They're both reading history at Cambridge.
read verb (MAKE A JUDGMENT)
My putting wasn’t good today – I wasn’t reading the greens right.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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C2
the act of reading something:
good/easy read The book is a good/easy, etc. read.
have a read of UK informal Could I have a read of (= can I read) your newspaper?
(Definition of read from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
read | American Dictionary
read verb (OBTAIN MEANING)
[ I/T ] past tense and past participle read us/red/
[ I ] She couldn’t read or write.
[ I/T ] past tense and past participle read us/red/
To read is also to say aloud the written words:
read verb (UNDERSTAND)
read verb (SHOW/STATE)
past tense and past participle read us/red/
past tense and past participle read us/red/
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Phrasal verbs
(Definition of read from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of read
read
The effects of elevated train noise on reading ability.
I have three concerns after reading the book.
If you did not know what kind of sound banda makes - or why - after reading this book you will be none the wiser.
Evidence from intervention programs on reading suggests a causal relation between experience with books and language acquisition.
Our major interest was to determine how differences observed in reading interactions relate to language acquisition.
Predicting reading ability over the long-term : the changing roles of letter naming, phonological awareness and orthographic processing.
Regression analyses with the older group attributed this to reading acquisition.
Students of policy and politics can benefit from reading this book.
I think linguists with an interest in diachronic syntax will surely benefit from reading this book.
When you are done reading the passage, turn the page.
Perspectives on reading research and instruction (pp. 28-33).
I found myself asking on reading this, but the question is not seriously addressed.
On reading through the text, however, one begins to develop an uneasy feeling that its central focus is the provider and not the older person.
Gradually from then he became very withdrawn, and he stopped reading the papers.
Such damage produces a greater impairment on reading exception words than regular words.
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