Engels Woord van de dag

read

lezen

Definities

Engels > Nederlands

read

1. (ik) lees

2. (je) leest

3. (we) lezen

Engels > Engels

read

1. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

have you read this book?; he doesn’t like to read

2. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.

He read us a passage from his new book.

All right, class, who wants to read next?

3. v. To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.

She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.

I can read his feelings in his face.

4. v. To consist of certain text.

On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance".

The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.

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

Arabic reads right to left.

That sentence reads strangely.

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

7. v. (informal usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.

8. v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

Do you read me?

9. v. (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.

I am reading theology at university.

10. v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).

to read a hard disk; to read a port; to read the keyboard

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

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

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

14. v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.

15. v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.

16. v. past tense of read

17. n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.

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

His thrillers are always a gripping read.

19. n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of read, reading, calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult.

Nederlands > Engels

lezen

1. v. to read

Ze houdt ervan om boeken te lezen in haar vrije tijd. - She enjoys reading books in her free time.

Hij heeft alle Harry Potter-boeken gelezen. - He has read all the Harry Potter books.

Kun je alsjeblieft deze zin voor me lezen? - Can you please read this sentence for me?

De studenten moeten de tekst zorgvuldig lezen voordat ze de vragen beantwoorden. - The students have to read the text carefully before answering the questions.

2. v. to gather (esp. fruits)

(...) wij mogten in de gemeente vruchten lezen (...) (1834, Afscheidsrede te s̕ Gravenhage,) (1834, Afscheidsrede te s̕ Gravenhage,)

(...) dan komt de beer (...) druiven lezen. (Hollandsch penning-magazijn voor de jeugd, 1844,) (Hollandsch penning-magazijn voor de jeugd, 1844,)

de arenleessters - the gleaners (Ear of wheat-gatherers)

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

Take a book and read it.
    Pak een boek en lees het!
He can read.
    Hij kan lezen.
I can't read.
    Ik kan niet lezen.
I could read between the lines.
    Ik kon tussen de regels lezen.
I haven't read all of his novels.
    Ik heb niet al zijn romans gelezen.

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sixty-nine	anaesthetic	fence	cable car
bark	wave	minute	skin
February	ambulance	fireplace	reading

Willekeurig

tap	pencil	syringe	earring
musician	telephone booth	lamp	apple
harmonica	river	stocking	fern
transport	thigh	sit	mirror

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