Maksud read Dalam Bahasa Melayu

• 0 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.

• 1 to learn by reading

  • I read in the paper today that the government is going to cut taxes again.

• 2 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.

• 3 to pass one’s time by reading books etc for pleasure etc

  • I don’t have much time to read these days.

• 4 to study (a subject) at a university etc

  • He’s reading history at Oxford.

• 5 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.

• 6 to be written or worded; to say

  • His letter reads as follows: ‘Dear Sir, …’

• 7 (of a piece of writing etc) to make a (good, bad etc) impression

  • This report reads well.

• 8 (of dials, instruments etc) to show a particular figure, measurement etc

  • The thermometer reads –5C.

• 9 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’.

• 10 the act, or a period, of reading

  • I like a good read before I go to sleep.