Explicate and Read

verb

• Make plain and comprehensible.
  • usage: "He explained the laws of physics to his students"
  • synonyms: explain
• Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.
  • usage: "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
  • synonyms: formulate, develop

• (v.t.) To unfold; to expand; to lay open.
• (a.) Evolved; unfolded.
• (v.t.) To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.

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"
  • synonyms: learn, study, take
• Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments.
  • usage: "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
  • synonyms: register, show, record
• 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

• (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.

• Scottish, English: Variant of Reed
• English, Anglo-Saxon: Form of Reed. A reed or red haired