Synonyms of the word

read

• v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed…
• v. (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
• v. To consist of certain text.
• v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
• v. (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce…
• v. (informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
• v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
• v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
• v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
• v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
• v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either…
• n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
• n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's…
• n. (in combination) That which is to be read.

anticipate

• v. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
• v. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
• v. to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
• v. to eagerly wait for (something).

audition

• n. (countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
• n. (uncountable) The sense of hearing.
• v. (transitive) To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.
• v. (intransitive) To take part in such a performance.

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

construe

• n. A translation.
• n. An interpretation.
• v. To interpret or explain the meaning of something.
• v. (grammar) To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence; to parse.
• v. To translate.

feature

• n. (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
• n. An important or main item.
• n. (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently…
• n. Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
• n. (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
• n. The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty,…
• n. (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and…
• n. (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer,…
• v. (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
• v. (transitive) To star, to contain.
• v. (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

forebode

• v. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
• v. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is…
• n. (obsolete) prognostication; presage.

foretell

• v. To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

indicate

• v. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
• v. To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.
• v. To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
• v. To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

interpret

• v. To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms…
• v. To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation.
• v. (intransitive) To act as an interpreter.

learn

• v. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
• v. To attend a course or other educational activity.
• v. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
• v. To be studying.
• v. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
• v. (now only in slang and dialects) To teach.

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

predict

• v. (transitive) To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge…
• v. (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.) To imply.
• v. (intransitive) To make predictions.
• v. (transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
• n. (obsolete) A prediction.

prognosticate

• v. (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
• v. (transitive) To presage, betoken.

promise

• n. (countable) An oath or affirmation; a vow.
• n. (countable) A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render…
• n. (uncountable) Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
• n. (countable, computing, programming) A placeholder object that can be manipulated in code before it has…
• n. (countable, obsolete) Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised.
• v. (transitive) To commit to something or action; to make an oath; make a vow.
• v. (intransitive) To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.

publication

• n. The act of publishing printed or other matter.
• n. An issue of printed or other matter, offered for sale or distribution.
• n. The communication of information to the general public etc.

record

• n. An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
• n. Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making…
• n. A vinyl disc on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.
• n. (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
• n. The most extreme known value of some achievement, particularly in competitive events.
• v. (transitive) To make a record of information.
• v. (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
• v. (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
• v. (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
• v. (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To repeat; to practice.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To sing or repeat a tune.
• v. (obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.

register

• n. A formal recording of names, events, transactions etc.
• n. A book of such entries.
• n. An entry in such a book.
• n. The act of registering.
• n. A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing…
• n. One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording…
• n. A device that automatically records a quantity.
• n. The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
• n. (telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
• n. (computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit,…
• n. (printing) The exact alignment of lines, margins and colors.
• n. (printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
• n. (music) The range of a voice or instrument.
• n. (music) An organ stop.
• n. (linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context.
• n. A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct.
• n. (chiefly US) Clipping of cash register.
• v. (transitive) To enter in a register.
• v. (transitive) To enroll, especially to vote.
• v. (transitive) To record, especially in writing.
• v. (transitive) To buy the full version of a trial software.
• v. (transitive) To express outward signs.
• v. (transitive, mail) To record officially and handle specially.
• v. (transitive, printing) To adjust so as to be properly aligned.
• v. (intransitive) To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
• v. (intransitive) To enroll as a student.
• v. (intransitive) To make an impression.
• v. (intransitive) To be in proper alignment.
• v. (law) To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.

say

• v. (transitive) To pronounce.
• v. (transitive) To recite.
• v. To tell, either verbally or in writing.
• v. To indicate in a written form.
• v. (impersonal) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate…
• v. (informal, imperative) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
• v. (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
• v. (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension,…
• n. One's stated opinion or input into a discussion or decision.
• adv. For example; let us assume.
• interj. (colloquial) Used to gain one's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion.
• n. A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
• v. To try; to assay.
• n. Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
• n. Tried quality; temper; proof.
• n. Essay; trial; attempt.

scan

• v. To examine sequentially, part by part.
• v. (computing) To create a digital copy of an image using a scanner.
• v. To look about for.
• v. (poetry) To fit or conform to a specific meter.
• v. (obsolete) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
• n. An instance of scanning.
• n. The result or output of a scanning process.

see

• v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
• v. To form a mental picture of.
• v. (social) To meet, to visit.
• v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
• v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
• v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
• v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
• v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
• v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
• n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
• n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
• n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

show

• v. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
• v. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
• v. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
• v. (transitive) To guide or escort.
• v. (intransitive) To be visible, to be seen.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
• v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
• v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
• n. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
• n. (countable) An exhibition of items.
• n. (countable) A demonstration.
• n. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
• n. (countable) A movie.
• n. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
• n. A project or presentation.
• n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
• n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
• n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
• n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

study

• v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them,…
• v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
• v. To acquire knowledge on a subject.
• v. To look at minutely.
• v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
• v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
• n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
• n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
• n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
• n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
• n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
• n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of…
• n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
• n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

translate

• v. (transitive) To change text (as of a book, document, movie) from one language to another.
• v. (intransitive) To change text from one language to another; to have a translation into another language.
• v. (transitive) To change from one form or medium to another.
• v. (intransitive) To change from one form or medium to another.
• v. (transitive, physics) To subject a body to linear motion with no rotation.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To transfer, to move from one place or position to another.
• v. (transitive, Christianity) To transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.
• v. (transitive, Christianity) To transfer a bishop from one see to another.
• v. (transitive, Christianity) To ascend, to rise to Heaven without bodily death.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To entrance, to cause to lose sense or recollection.
• v. (transitive, music) To rearrange a song from one genre to another.
• v. (medicine) To cause to move from one body part to another, as of disease.
• v. (genetics) To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
• n. (analysis, in Euclidean spaces) A set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point…

understand

• v. (transitive) To be aware of the meaning of.
• v. To believe, based on information.
• v. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
• v. (obsolete, rare, humorous) To stand under; to support.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.