Read vs. Backread — What's the Difference?

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

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

To utter or render aloud (written or printed material)

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

To have the ability to examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed material in a given language or notation)

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

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

To discern and interpret the nature or significance of through close examination or sensitive observation

To discern or anticipate through examination or observation; descry

To determine the intent or mood of

To attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to

To consider (something written or printed) as having a particular meaning or significance

To foretell or predict (the future).

To receive or comprehend (a radio message, for example)

To study or make a study of

To learn or get knowledge of from something written or printed

To proofread.

To have or use as a preferred reading in a particular passage

To indicate, register, or show

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

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

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

To speak aloud the words that one is reading

To learn by reading

To study.

To have a particular wording

To contain a specific meaning

To indicate, register, or show a measurement or figure

To have a specified character or quality for the reader

Something that is read

An interpretation or assessment

Informed by reading; learned

To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

To speak aloud words or other information that is written. often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object

(transitive) To read work(s) written by (a named author).

(transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.

To consist of certain text.

(ergative) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.

To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.

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

To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).

To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.

To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).

To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

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

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

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

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

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

Inflection of [[:en:#Etymology_1

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

(in combination) Something to be read; a written work.

A person's interpretation or impression of something.

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

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

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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

Reading.

To advise; to counsel.

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

To tell; to declare; to recite.

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.

Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.

To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.

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

To give advice or counsel.

To tell; to declare.

To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.

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

To learn by reading.

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.

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

Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.

Something that is read;

Interpret something that is written or printed;

Have or contain a certain wording or form;

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

Obtain data from magnetic tapes;

Interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky, etc.; also of human behavior;

Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression;

Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments;

Be a student of a certain subject;

Audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role;

To hear and understand;

Make sense of a language;