read – English noun declension

English noun forms of read

Noun: read
Singularread
Pluralreads

Sample Sentences

  • I had a read of the evening papers.
  • One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read. [1879, Frederick James Furnivall, letter to the editor of "The Spectator":]
  • And when he finishes supper / Planning to have a read at the evening paper / It's Put a screw in this wall— / He has no time at all[…] [1958, Philip Larkin, Self's the Man:]
  • In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear. [2006, MySQL administrator's guide and language reference, page 393:]
  • His thrillers are always a gripping read.
  • What's your read of the current political situation?
  • On the quarterback's first read of the situation, his target receiver was not open.
  • [As] Corey points out, "if you and I are both black queens then we can't call each other black queens because that's not a read. That's a [fact]." [1997, Framing Culture: Africanism, Sexuality and Performance, page 186 (also discussing Paris is Burning)]
  • Like most African-American women, Pearlie Mae uses snapping in many of the same ways that black gay men use it: to accentuate a read. [2003, Philip Auslander, Performance: Media and technology, page 185:]
  • I learned that it was acceptable to be witty, especially if you were one of the wearblackallthetime, deconstructivist, radical, feministbitchydiva girls who could give a harsh read (i.e., critique) or throw shade […]. [2013, bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom, →ISBN:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”).
2. Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”), Persian رده (rade, “to order, to arrange, class”). In West Germanic the verb had a sense “interpret”, which developed further into “interpret letters” in English and “interpret by intuition, guess” on the continent. Compare rede. See: Old English Nouns 'rǣdan'.

Verbs referencing "read"

Czech Nouns porada.