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51read up — v. (d; intr.) to read up on (to read up on a subject) * * * [ riːd ʌp] (d; intr.) to read up on (to read up on a subject) …
52read — [OE] In most western European languages, the word for ‘read’ goes back ultimately to a source which meant literally ‘gather, pick up’: French lire, for instance, which comes from Latin legere (source of English legible and collect), and German… …
53read — [OE] In most western European languages, the word for ‘read’ goes back ultimately to a source which meant literally ‘gather, pick up’: French lire, for instance, which comes from Latin legere (source of English legible and collect), and German… …
54Read — /reed/, n. 1. George, 1733 98, American political leader: served in the Continental Congress 1774 77. 2. Sir Herbert, 1893 1968, English critic and poet. 3. a male given name: from an Old English word meaning red. * * * (as used in expressions)… …
55read — (as used in expressions) compact disc read only memory erasable programmable read only memory Read only memory …
56Read — I Read [riːd], 1) Grantly, britischer Gynäkologe, Dick Read, Grantly. 2) Sir (seit 1953) Herbert Edward, englischer Kunsthistoriker und Schriftsteller, * bei Kirkbymoorside (County North Yorkshire) 4. 12. 1893, ✝ Malton (County North …
57Read — This is a surname of some controversy. Recorded in several spellings including Reid, generally held to be Scottish, Read, Reade, Reed, Red and Redd, which can best be described as British , it has at least three possible origins. Firstly, the… …
58read — Synonyms and related words: absorb, announce, appreciate, apprehend, assign to, assimilate, be with one, bone, catch, catch on, comprehend, con, conceive, construe, contemplate, correct copy, debate, decipher, declaim, define, deliver, demagogue …
59read up on — PHRASAL VERB If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it. [V P P n] I ve read up on the dangers of all these drugs …
60read — I v 1. peruse, study, go over, review, run over or through; pore over, wade through, plunge into, consume, devour, bury oneself in; scrutinize, attend to, pay attention to; go over quickly, thumb through, flip through, scan, skim, glance or run… …
