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Difference Between Read and Backread

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Read

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

Backread

To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.

Read

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

Backread

To interpret what one has read previously in the light of later experience or knowledge.

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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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.

Read

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

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.

Read

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

Read

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

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

Read

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

Read

To foretell or predict (the future).

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

To proofread.

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

To study.

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

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?

Read

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

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.

Read

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

Read

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

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").

Read

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

Read

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

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.

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

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

Read

Inflection of [[:en:#Etymology_1

Read

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

Read

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

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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