Read and Replace

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

verb

• Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected. )
  • usage: "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"
• Take the place or move into the position of.
  • usage: "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
  • synonyms: supplant, supersede, supervene upon, supercede
• Put something back where it belongs.
  • usage: "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"
  • synonyms: put back
• Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.
  • usage: "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
  • synonyms: substitute, interchange, exchange

• (v.t.) To put in a new or different place.
• (v.t.) To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition or the like.
• (v.t.) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
• (v.t.) To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
• (v.t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.