| Englisch > Deutsch | |
| read | |
| 1. Verb: | |
| 2. [1] lesen | |
| 3. [2] vorlesen | |
| 4. [3] Vorlesungen hören | |
| 5. [4] hören und verstehen | |
| 6. [5] erfassen, messen und zeigen | |
| [1] I will read this book. | |
| Ich werde dieses Buch lesen. | |
| [1, 2] I can read and read out loud, so that I can read you this book. | |
| Ich kann lesen und laut vorlesen, sodass ich dir dieses Buch vorlesen kann. | |
| [2] "The voice continued, reading the second, and altogether stranger, part of the poem …" | |
| Die Stimme fuhr fort, den zweiten, und insgesamt merkwürdigeren, Teil des Gedichtes vorzulesen … | |
| [3] He read Physics in Cambridge. | |
| Er hörte Physik in Cambridge. | |
| [4] Can you read me? | |
| Können Sie mich verstehen? | |
| [5] The thermometer reads 30 degrees outside. | |
| Das Thermometer erfasst draußen 30 Grad. | |
| Englisch > Englisch | |
| 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. subst. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play. |  |
| 18. subst. (in combination) Something to be read; a written work. |  |
| His thrillers are always a gripping read. |  |
| 19. subst. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of read, reading, calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult. |  |
| Deutsch > Englisch | |
| lesen | |
| 1. v. to read (look at and understand symbols, words, or data) |  |
| 2. v. to select and gather or harvest (things like grapes) |  |