Word Type
Read can be a noun, an adverb or a verb.
read used as a noun:
- A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
read used as an adverb:
- that is, in other words
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
read used as a verb:
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- To think, believe; to consider (that).
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
"Have you read this book?" - 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." - To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, etc.
"I can read his feelings in his face." - To consist of certain text.
"On the door hung a sign that read, "Proper Safety Equipment Required Beyond This Point."" - Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
"Arabic reads right to left." -
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
"Do you read me?" - To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
"I am reading theology at university."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is read?
- Verb usage: Have you read this book?
- Verb usage: He doesn’t like to read.
- Verb usage: He read us a passage from his new book.
- Verb usage: All right, class, who wants to read next?
- Verb usage: I can read his feelings in his face.
- Verb usage: On the door hung a sign that read, "Proper Safety Equipment Required Beyond This Point."
- Verb usage: Arabic reads right to left.
- Verb usage: Do you read me?
- Verb usage: I am reading theology at university.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of read are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of read, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).