Reklam
Reklam

English-Azerbaijani dictionary

read [riːd] verb (past tense, past participle read [red])

1 to look at and understand (printed or written words or other signs): Have you read this letter?; Can your little girl read yet?; Can anyone here read Chinese?; She can read music.; I can read (= understand without being told) her thoughts/mind.
az: oxumaq
ru: читать

2 to learn by reading: I read in the paper today that the government is going to cut taxes again.
az: oxuyub öyrənmək
ru: вычитать

3 to read aloud, usually to someone else: I read my daughter a story before she goes to bed; I read to her before she goes to bed.
az: bərkdən oxumaq
ru: читать вслух
4 to pass one’s time by reading books etc for pleasure etc: I don’t have much time to read these days.
az: oxumaq
ru: читать

5 to study (a subject) at a university etc: He’s reading history at Oxford.
az: öyrənmək
ru: изучать

6 to look at or be able to see (something) and get information from it: I can’t read the clock without my glasses; The nurse read the thermometer.
az: baxmaq, oxumaq (analizi)
ru: разбирать

7 to be written or worded; to say: His letter reads as follows: ‘Dear Sir, ...’
az: yazılıb, deyilir
ru: гласить

8 (of a piece of writing etc) to make a (good, bad etc) impression: This report reads well.
az: təsir yaratmaq
ru: читаться

9 (of dials, instruments etc) to show a particular figure, measurement etc: The thermometer reads –5°C.
az: göstərmək
ru: показывать

10 to (cause a word, phrase etc to) be replaced by another, eg in a document or manuscript: There is one error on this page – For ‘two yards’, read ‘two metres’; ‘Two yards long’ should read ‘two metres long’.
az: doğru oxunmaq
ru: следует читать
♦ noun

the act, or a period, of reading: I like a good read before I go to sleep.
az: oxuma
ru: чтение

See also:

lip-read

read between the lines

read off

read on

read out

read over

read-out

well-read

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