noun
- The activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text.
- usage: "a secret key or password is required for decryption"
- synonyms: decryption, decipherment
Decoding and Read
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noun
- Something that is read.
- usage: "the article was a very good read"
verb
- Interpret something that is written or printed.
- usage: "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie"
- Have or contain a certain wording or form.
- usage: "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say"
- synonyms: say
- Look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed.
- usage: "The King will read the proclamation at noon"
- Obtain data from magnetic tapes.
- usage: "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
- synonyms: scan
- Interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior.
- usage: "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"
- Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression.
- usage: "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message"; "You can't take credit for this"
- synonyms: take
- Be a student of a certain subject.
- usage: "She is reading for the bar exam"
- Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments.
- usage: "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
- Audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role.
- usage: "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"
- To hear and understand.
- usage: "I read you loud and clear"
- Make sense of a language.
- usage: "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek"
- synonyms: understand, interpret, translate
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- (v.t.) To tell; to declare; to recite.
- (n.) Rennet. See 3d Reed.
- (v.t.) To advise; to counsel.
- (imp.&p.p.) of Read.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
- (v.i.) 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.
- imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
- (v.t.) Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
- (v.) Reading.
- (v.i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
- (v.t.) To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
- (v.i.) To perform the act of reading; to peruse or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
- (v.t.) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
- (v.t.) Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
- (v.i.) To give advice or counsel.
- (v.i.) To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
- (v.i.) To learn by reading.
- (a.) Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
- (v.i.) To tell; to declare.
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