{
    "term": "read",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "read",
            "heSheIt": "reads"
        },
        "pastSimple": "read",
        "pastParticiple": "read",
        "ingForm": "reading"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to look at and understand the meaning of written or printed words or symbols",
            "sensetop": "read something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's still **learning to read**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some children can **read and write** before they go to school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't read your writing.",
                    "contextForm": "read something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you read music?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm trying to read the map."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He speaks and reads Arabic fluently."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most children can read by the age of seven."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had great difficulty learning to read and write."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He learned to read when he was three."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of the kids here can't even read and write."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["aloud", "silently", "carefully"],
                "verb + read": ["be able to", "can", "learn to"],
                "preposition": ["about", "from", "in"],
                "phrases": ["read and write", "read for fun", "read for pleasure"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to go through written or printed words, etc. in silence or speaking them to other people",
            "sensetop": "read to somebody/yourselfread somethingread something to somebody/yourselfread somebody something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm going to go to bed and read."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book is very easy to read."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He liked reading to his grandchildren.",
                    "contextForm": "read to somebody/yourself"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **read a book/magazine/newspaper**",
                    "contextForm": "read something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **read an article/a report/a letter/a blog/a review**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Have you read any Steinbeck *(= novels by him)*?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of the most **widely read** books in the world"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have read every single post in this entire thread."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't have time to read the novel."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I just **finished reading** your recent article."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **read** the poem **aloud**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Go on—read it to us.",
                    "contextForm": "read something to somebody/yourself"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Statements from police officers were read to the court."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She **read** us a **story**.",
                    "contextForm": "read somebody something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I read the words out loud."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Will you read me a story?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What are you reading at the moment?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She reads voraciously."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I used to read to my younger brothers at bedtime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Could you read the poem aloud to us please?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We teach students to read critically."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She read from the letter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She read avidly from an early age—books, magazines, anything."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've just read your interesting article."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I regularly read ‘Time’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I read a story to my son every night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I listen to my children reading aloud."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He remembers everything he reads in books."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's not someone who reads for pleasure."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He read her letter with interest."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Make sure you read the instructions correctly."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["aloud", "silently", "carefully"],
                "verb + read": ["be able to", "can", "learn to"],
                "preposition": ["about", "from", "in"],
                "phrases": ["read and write", "read for fun", "read for pleasure"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to discover or find out about somebody/something by reading",
            "sensetop": "read about/of something (in something)read that…read somethingread something in somethingread something on something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I read about the accident in the local paper.",
                    "contextForm": "read about/of something (in something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I read that he had resigned.",
                    "contextForm": "read that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I **read somewhere** that women are starting companies at record rates."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't remember where I read it.",
                    "contextForm": "read something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "That's the most ridiculous thing I have ever read!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't believe everything you read in the papers.",
                    "contextForm": "read something in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I read it on the internet.",
                    "contextForm": "read something on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hogan had read about her death in the paper."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had read of the case in the local newspaper."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I read about it in today's paper."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["aloud", "silently", "carefully"],
                "verb + read": ["be able to", "can", "learn to"],
                "preposition": ["about", "from", "in"],
                "phrases": ["read and write", "read for fun", "read for pleasure"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to guess what somebody else is thinking",
            "sensetop": "read somebody’s mind/thoughts",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Tell me what you want—I can't read your mind!"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to look at the movements of somebody’s lips to learn what they are saying",
            "sensetop": "read somebody’s lips",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to understand something in a particular way",
            "sensetop": "read somethingread something as something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "How do you read the present situation?",
                    "contextForm": "read something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Silence must not always be read as consent.",
                    "contextForm": "read something as something"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "interpret"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "to have something written on it; to be written in a particular way",
            "sensetop": "+ speech",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The sign read ‘No admittance’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I’ve changed the last paragraph. It now reads as follows…"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "to give a particular impression when read",
            "sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Generally, the article reads very well."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The poem reads like *(= sounds as if it is)* a translation."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "to show a particular weight, pressure, etc.",
            "sensetop": "read something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What does the thermometer read?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 10,
            "definition": "to get information from a measuring instrument",
            "sensetop": "read something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A man came to read the gas meter."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 11,
            "definition": "to hear and understand somebody speaking on a radio set",
            "sensetop": "read somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘Do you read me?’ ‘I'm reading you loud and clear.’"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 12,
            "definition": "to replace one word, etc. with another when correcting a text",
            "sensetop": "read A for Bread B as A",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "For ‘madam’ in line 3 read ‘madame’."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 13,
            "definition": "to study a subject, especially at a university",
            "sensetop": "read somethingread for something",
            "labels": "(British English, old-fashioned or formal)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I read English at Oxford.",
                    "contextForm": "read something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's reading for a law degree.",
                    "contextForm": "read for something"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 14,
            "definition": "to take information from a disk",
            "sensetop": "read somethingread something into something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The computer could not read the disk at all.",
                    "contextForm": "read something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to read a file into a computer",
                    "contextForm": "read something into something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to look for or discover a meaning in something that is not openly stated",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Reading between the lines, I think Clare needs money."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to understand easily what somebody is thinking or feeling",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody to listen carefully to what you are saying",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Read my lips: no new taxes *(= I promise there will be no new taxes)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to tell somebody with force that they must not do something",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to accept something without discussing it",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Can we take it as read that you want the job?"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/riːd/",
                "audio": "re/read/read__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/riːdz/",
                "audio": "re/read/reads__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/red/",
                "audio": "re/read/read__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈriːdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/read/reading__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/riːd/",
                "audio": "re/read/read__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/riːdz/",
                "audio": "re/read/reads__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/red/",
                "audio": "re/read/read__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈriːdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/read/reading__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English rǣdan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch raden and German raten ‘advise, guess’. Early senses included ‘advise’ and ‘interpret (a riddle or dream)’."
}