Palavra Inglês do Dia
read
ler
Definições
| inglês > português |
| read |
| 1. Verbo. ler |
| inglês > inglês |
| 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. |
| português > inglês |
| ler |
| 1. v. to read (to look at and interpret written information) |
| 2. v. to read (to speak aloud written information) |
| 3. v. to read (to be interpreted or read in a particular way) |
Exemplos
| I'll read a book while you're sleeping. Eu vou ler um livro enquanto você dorme. I read this book a couple of years ago. Eu li este livro dois anos atrás. He read the letter in front of everyone. Ele leu a carta diante de todos. She read the book in one day. Ela leu o livro num só dia. My son can neither read nor write yet. Meu filho ainda não sabe ler nem escrever. |
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