Found 1 hit - Term: to read between the lines, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
read \read\, v. i.
1. to give advice or counsel. obs.
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2. to tell; to declare. obs. --spenser.
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3. to perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over
and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like
document.
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so they read in the book of the law of god
distinctly, and gave the sense. --neh. viii.
8.
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4. to study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
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5. to learn by reading.
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i have read of an eastern king who put a judge to
death for an iniquitous sentence. --swift.
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6. to appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or
consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage
reads thus in the early manuscripts.
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7. to produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence
reads queerly.
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to read between the lines, to infer something different
from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning
as distinguished from the apparent meaning.
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