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“Read” or “Rede” or “Reed”

read / rede / reed are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

read r·EH·d

  • nounsomething that is read.
  • verbinterpret something that is written or printed.
  • verbhave or contain a certain wording or form.
  • verblook at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed.
  • verbobtain data from magnetic tapes.
  • verbinterpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior.
  • verbindicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments.
  • verbaudition for a stage role by reading parts of a role.
  • verbto hear and understand.

rede

  • verbgive an interpretation or explanation to.
  • verbgive advice to.

reed r·IY·d

  • nountall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
  • nounUnited States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920).
  • nounUnited States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902).
  • nouna vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it.
Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“read”

  • Cobain's suicide note read the words of Neil Young…
  • Jason Read (born 1977), rower who was…
  • …published, but it can be read on the Norwegian Entomological Society's
  • …given just two hours to read the million-plus words, during which…
  • …Art in Dublin, the Everard Read Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa,…
  • …system installed, these computers can read and write to the same…
  • …five years old can be read on the Norwegian Entomological Society's
  • …trial, key witness Monde Mbolombo read out a prepared statement confessing…
  • Genoino claimed that he didn’t read the document when he signed
  • First, the cast read through the entire script, then…

“rede”

  • Die Sudawen aber wiewol ihre rede etwas nyderiger wissen sich doch…
  • …- During an interview to Rede Globo, Workers Party treasurer Delúbio…
  • …e Tony em Hi-Fi, at Rede Record, until 1961.
  • …Show do Outro Mundo) on Rede Record de Televisão, again appearing…
  • …telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo from 1 October 2007…
  • …telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo.
  • …be produced on High-definition by Rede Globo at the 8 pm
  • …came under the control of Rede Ferroviária Federal S.A. (RFFSA).
  • A television miniseries produced by Rede Globo which tells the tale…
  • In 1944, he delivered the Rede Lecture at Cambridge on Plato…

“reed”

  • …the witnesses to the John Reed era, in the movie Reds
  • The reed switch was invented in 1936…
  • Reed wolf, Canis aureus moreoticus, better…
  • …and later patented in 1940.1936 Reed switchA reed switch is an…
  • …1981 in Misawa, Aomori, Japan, Reed is an American actress, model,…
  • …7 saw new hosts: Dawn Reed, Danni Rosner, and Christina Tkacik.
  • In 2009, Reed created a new segment called…
  • Hall, Edward Twitchell and Mildred Reed Hall.
  • The reed is then fixed by a…
  • …mulberry is put on the reed to prevent it from damage.

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