I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a compass bearing/reading (= a direction shown by a compass )
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We took a compass bearing to ensure we were walking in the right direction.
a poetry reading (= when poems are read to people, usually by the writer )
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I used to like giving poetry readings.
a spelling/reading/listening test
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I didn’t do very well in the listening test.
compulsive reading/viewing
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‘Gardening World’ is compulsive viewing for gardeners.
essential reading
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The journal is essential reading for doctors.
light reading
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It’s a really good book if you want a bit of light reading .
look/go/read through your notes
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I read through my notes before the exam.
read a book
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What book are you reading at the moment?
read a chapter
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I haven’t even read the first chapter yet.
read a diary
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I wish you’d let me read your diary.
read a headline
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I just read the main headlines.
read a letter
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May I read her letter?
read a map (= look at and understand the information on a map )
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He drove while I read the map.
read a newspaper
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Which newspaper do you read?
read an account
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Have you read his account of the journey?
read an email
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It took most of the morning to read my emails.
read an essay
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Did you read her essay on ‘The Waste Land’?
read and write
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Kerry could read and write when she was five.
read (sb) a story
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She read a lot of detective stories.
read sb’s expression (= understand how someone is feeling by looking at their expression )
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In the half light, Ellen could not read his expression.
read sb’s handwriting
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I’m afraid I find it very difficult to read your handwriting.
read sth from cover to cover (= read a book, magazine etc very thoroughly )
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He read it from cover to cover in less than three hours.
read the instructions
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Always read the instructions before switching on the machine.
read the signals (= to understand signals correctly )
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President Nixon read the signals and decided it was time to resign.
read voraciously
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Anne has always read voraciously .
read your mail
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The first thing he did was read his mail.
read/check the small print
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Always read the small print before you sign anything.
reading glasses (= for reading )
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She looked at him over the frames of her reading glasses.
reading/writing etc material(s)
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Videos often make good teaching material.
reading/writing skills
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Their reading skills are poor.
read/say sth aloud
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Joanne, would you read the poem aloud?
read/see an article
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It was good to see such an intelligent article on censorship.
read/study the menu
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Sandy read the menu, but didn’t see anything he wanted to eat.
see/read sth in the newspaper
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I saw in the newspaper that he had died.
speed reading
take it as read/given (= assume that something is correct or certain, because you are sure that this is the case )
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It isn’t official yet, but you can take it as read that you’ve got the contract.
the gauge reads sth (= it shows something )
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The petrol gauge read empty.
the headlines read/say (= the headlines say something )
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The next morning’s headlines read: ‘Moors Search for Missing Boys’.
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■ ADVERB
about
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Licensed dealers still deal in certain shares the punter reads about in the tip sheets.
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You read about them in National Geographic.
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So the following six months to a year I spent the time abroad walking and seeing the places I had read about .
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Also, he seemed to remember reading about stolen jewels.
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Perhaps she had acknowledged his wartime exploits, up there in his Spitfire inflicting those severe losses she had read about .
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He enjoyed reading about military history and adventure stories.
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The maximum is 74 minutes which is, therefore, the maximum time available to read about 650 megabytes of data.
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Places you see pictures of and read about .
aloud
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So one can not say that grapheme-phoneme conversion is the way non-words are read aloud .
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She changed her mind about reading aloud to Irene, who was looking at her, she felt, skeptically.
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The paragraph can be first written, then corrected, and then read aloud .
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Maryellen reads aloud the sign on the wall.
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Some reading requires quiet and calm; some reading cries out to be shared, perhaps to be read aloud .
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We spent a few evenings reading aloud these books.
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He was reading aloud from Sara's Alan Coren collection.
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Justin sat in a chair at the front of the class and read aloud from Bears on Hemlock Mountain.
out
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As the scores were read out like a football draw it became clear that it would be a close contest.
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An Illustration: NETtalk NETtaik4 is a program that teaches itself to read out loud.
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ERROR-RETURN-DETAIL/ - is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to read out the requested modules.
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Lacan gives us a way of reading out both.
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They'd been read out in court.
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With an official manner, a man loudly read out her crime for the crowd to hear.
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They are more like a succession of monologues read out before a dismally empty assembly.
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But then at 11.10, there was the result being read out , live, by the Torbay returning officer.
■ NOUN
article
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After some fumbling I had managed to read my first article by Julie Bitchkill.
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I read your article and would love to talk to you.
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He started reading an article about the lifestyle of the rich and famous.
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A senior manager read one of the articles and promptly promoted the marketing manager to a position as his assistant.
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Having read the article , I admit that aspects of it caused my eyebrows to rise.
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David Klugman remembers his anger after reading the article .
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Listen to talks - read articles - then jot down a few headings on what message is being conveyed.
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I read your article on NaviPress and it looks like a great way to start a home page.
book
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His books are still read , though more now for the nostalgia they generate than for their real-world relevance.
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If no one involved with a book has read it properly, why should the public bother?
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She had lists and lists of books to read .
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I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely.
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So does toilet tissue, which makes you wonder where a book is being read .
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Anyway, Alan needed his sleep, he had books to read , plans to draw, and essays to write.
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And children often have to write about every book they read .
child
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During the midday meal the older children read edifying passages chosen by Nicholas from religious or secular history.
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Some children will pretend to read while others attend to the print.
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Many of the children probably could not read or write.
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All you have to do, it seems, is teach a child to read .
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This form is widely - though by no means universally - adopted in writing text for young children to read .
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The important thing is that children learn to read with confidence, understanding and pleasure.
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I wish my child would read different, better, more advanced books.
letter
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He wanted to read books and the letters his many friends sent him.
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Wade read the letter through again, then lay back and watched the snow slanting across the yellow firelight.
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For some one whose knees shook when she tried to read a letter to her classmates, the training was more than useful.
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She watched Léonie finish reading the letter .
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I was able to turn away from all the staring faces and simply read my letter .
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Peter read the letter twice before its meaning sank in.
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Gwenellen was at tea, and reading a letter she had had from Aline by the second post.
magazine
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It was quite half an hour before he gave a sigh and settled down again to reading his magazine .
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I used to send my songs off to outfits in Hollywood that I had read about in magazines .
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Then I get up and read the papers and magazines .
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His interest in the business grew after reading trade magazines and other material about the business.
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She read it in a magazine .
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He follows the auctions and reads the auction magazines .
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I guess you read one porno magazine and the second one is just the same.
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They are reading books and magazines .
mind
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Surely he hadn't somehow read her mind and shared that foolish thought that stress and tiredness had put into her head?
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She knows he can read her mind , she knows her thoughts are open to him.
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He might have been rather less relieved if he could have read her mind .
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It may respond to voice commands or it may read minds .
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He had read her mind with perfect accuracy.
newspaper
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He was reading a newspaper , apparently oblivious to the contribution he was making to the traffic chaos.
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But it has been shrinking steadily in terms of the percentage of the population reading a daily newspaper .
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Vargas sat in the corner drinking coffee and reading a newspaper .
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I think of a starving boy I read about in the newspaper .
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They only realised he was autistic after reading a newspaper article on the symptoms.
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The description, which I had read in a recent newspaper account, had struck me as infinitely ironic and strange.
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Normally he never read a newspaper or listened to the radio.
paper
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Characters and their philosophies can be cobbled together from Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and a reading of contemporary papers .
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Down the block the neighborhood dead-ended in abandoned farmland that Mami read in the local paper the developers were negotiating to buy.
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In 1945 most people read a broadsheet paper - four populars and the two qualities, compared with two tabloids.
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One grunt in the Far East read one of my papers .
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Everybody stopped reading the music papers and switched to Smash Hits.
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Five years from now you are not going to be able to remember the book you read for a term paper .
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But Conservative and Labour partisans who disagreed about the bias in their daily papers were reading different papers.
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Jody reads the paper and winces.
report
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He sat at his desk, reading reports but not taking in what he read.
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But reading the reports can provide reassurance that nothing was held back.
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But, Father, you only read the medical reports .
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They will not be reading the reports released by blue-ribbon commissions.
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How well a company performs is judged by customers at the point of sale, not by reading financial reports .
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Just reading these late census reports and it shows that the small town is passing.
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She watched him as he read the report .
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After reading the reports and deciding that her dream car is too expensive, our consumer decides to buy jewelry.
story
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You have no authority to read stories like that.
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You go upstairs and read Campbell a story before she goes to sleep.
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Even so, I locked myself in the bathroom where I could read the story slowly and without fear of interruption.
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People read the story and laughed.
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I tried once to get out of reading him a story .
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Then Aunt Branwell read her a story from the Bible, and I forgot about it.
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A few who do not dare to read aloud will ask the ones who do to read their stories too.
text
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Perhaps they don't read the text books.
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How much more fulfilling it is to meet a genre by having our parents read from many different texts .
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In terms of the principles involved, we could be talking here about playing chess or reading a page of text .
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To do this you can read texts , making systematic changes of person, tense, and vocabulary items.
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The crucial thing to remember is that at no cost do we want our children to read without understanding a text .
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Shortly afterwards Villepin called Jospin's chief adviser, Olivier Schrameck, to read out the full text to him.
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You read the text by placing a hand-shaped cursor on to the document window.
thought
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She did not read his thoughts or hear him talking in his sleep.
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You could almost read Horton's thoughts as the chances kept going by.
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If he had been able to read my thoughts , he would have been disgusted.
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He seemed to read my thoughts .
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I read your thoughts and letters weeks ago.
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But I can't read your thoughts .
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In the first instance, more reading and thought will be necessary in order to satisfactorily cover the topics.
word
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Rachaela could only read the words Come to me.
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I wonder if Lincoln had read those words when he presented the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet.
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Proofreading means reading each word of your work carefully and also making sure the layout is right.
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These and other strategies encourage Evan to read the words on the page.
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When she read the first word , J O E, her heart gave a great leap.
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I can read the notes and words as I sing.
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It had a red and yellow band on which I could just read the word Cubana.
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At that time, I could not see or read the words .
■ VERB
learn
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The processes of learning to read and reading with competence an concerned essentially with developing intellectually skills and abilities.
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On the first day, the woman, whose name was Fania, had expressed a strong desire to learn to read .
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I learned to read the galley proofs and familiarised myself with printers' hieroglyphics.
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The next spring, Callie learned to read .
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It is not until women learn to read that they internalize the masculine schema.
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This marks a huge step in the process of learning to read .
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A model prisoner, he learned to read and write, even publishing a small book of poetry.
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Over the years you learn to read the plays, see the way the game develops.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a must-have/must-see/must-read etc
a rattling good yarn/story/read
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On one level, it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read.
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We bet the Weatherfield Advertiser was a rattling good read under Ken's editorship.
make (for) interesting/fascinating/compelling etc reading
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A glance at the provisions of the Convention makes interesting reading .
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He also has a collection of Rentokil news letters going back to his early days which made for fascinating reading after dinner.
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His observations may make interesting reading .
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In the context of the £33 million earmarked for 20 City Technology Colleges, that figure makes interesting reading .
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Its Report was published in 1867 and makes fascinating reading .
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The guidance, when it appears, should make interesting reading .
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The report I commissioned on you makes for interesting reading .
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This, unlike the first one, makes interesting reading , and is referred to continually.
read (sb) the riot act
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Stephanie read Ted the riot act for seeing his old girlfriend.
read sb's palm
read/shout etc sth out (loud)
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Everything I had read before turned out to be outdated.
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He comes up to my room in the evenings so that I can read them out to him.
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He read it out loud to his colleagues, quite sarcastically, expecting them to agree that it was ridiculous.
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He shouts her out into the street for a harlot.
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Laura listened attentively while Yoyo read the speech out loud, and in the end, her eyes were glistening too.
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North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval, but it was all delightfully vague.
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She brings her notes about it to the meeting and reads them out .
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We can read the books children are reading, find out what happens in class, ask what the guidance counselor said.
reading/printed etc matter
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Armed with the knowledge gleaned from reading matter and known computer buffs I travelled far and wide.
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But they also noted whether there was reading matter in the house.
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I was grateful for the information you conveyed regarding Heather's reading matter on Rhodes.
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The noble Lord is not, you understand a personal friend of mine: just my current reading matter .
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There were also other changes, such as in available reading matter .
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Thus the best libretto ever written for the best opera ever written is scarcely tolerable as reading matter .
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Typographer a specialist in the design of printed matter , and in particular the art of typography.
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Typography the design and planning of printed matter using type.
something to eat/drink/read/do etc
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But he was walking to a truck stop across the street, probably getting something to eat during his break.
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It had something to do with being a man.
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It had something to do with skills, and something to do with expectation and hope.
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Most calendar programs remind you gently when you have something to do.
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No, you can't dash out for something to eat.
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Of course, the beer might have had something to do with this.
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Then I rolled up my things in a blanket and went out and had something to eat.
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You've done it a thousand times already, but you do it again, just for something to do.
widely read
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But even though his book was intended for contemplatives, it was also widely read by lay men and women.
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But he was one of the most well-informed, widely read and serious political figures in public life.
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For all its note of fantasy, however, the article was widely read and well timed.
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Herbert is widely read, where Collins is seldom even heard of.
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Local newspapers are widely read and relatively cheap to advertise in.
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Newspapers with a significant political reporting are not widely read, whereas television news programs are often among the most-watched programs.
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The older works listed first are still widely read and most are generally available in both hardcover and paperback.
you only have to read/look at/listen to etc sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Read me Aunt Evelyn's letter while I cook dinner.
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Always read the label before you wash your clothes.
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Did you read about that terrible car crash?
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Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers.
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Good managers are usually able to read a situation quickly and take the right action.
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Have you read Jean Martin's latest novel?
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Have you read Stephen King's new book yet?
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I can read Spanish but I can't speak it very well.
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I learned to read music when I was taking piano lessons.
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I was astonished to read that half of all sixteen year olds have experimented with drugs.
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Jean can't read a word without her glasses on.
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map reading
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Men shouldn't be surprised if women read this behaviour as threatening.
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My parents taught me how to read .
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Oliver is reading philosophy at Oxford.
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She learnt to read when she was only three years old.
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She went on to read medicine at Edinburgh.
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Someone came to read the electricity meter this morning.
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Soon utility companies may be able to read your meter by computer.
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The headline read : "Firefighters Save Girl From Flames."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finally, it never hurts to wear our own love of reading on our sleeve.
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I marveled at her physical beauty, wanting her to like me, to read to me, to even hold me.
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I opened the seals as carefully as I could and read the file.
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On the other hand, your readers might be bright and fully conscious of what they are reading.
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On the way out I noticed a photograph of a benign-looking chap and read about his gifts to charity.
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The Government is also to rush through a ban on fox hunting by holding the bill's second reading on December 18.
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The judge had been reading the court file.
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We can not help signing so long as there is another human being who needs to read the signs.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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Journal in double triumph Roy Castle takes a break from record-breaking and relaxes with a good read .
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It is certainly worth a good read , and I can recommend it to anyone interested in this subject.
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I just sit and have a good read until they are done.
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On one level, it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read .
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Barnes and Hughes for a good read , Levin ton for the examinations.
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It is a recipe which makes for a very good read .
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Nevertheless, the book is undoubtedly a good , racy read , especially in its first 100 pages.
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Taken as a good read , this is an excellent book.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a must-have/must-see/must-read etc
a rattling good yarn/story/read
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On one level, it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read.
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We bet the Weatherfield Advertiser was a rattling good read under Ken's editorship.
read (sb) the riot act
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Stephanie read Ted the riot act for seeing his old girlfriend.
read sb's palm
read/shout etc sth out (loud)
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Everything I had read before turned out to be outdated.
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He comes up to my room in the evenings so that I can read them out to him.
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He read it out loud to his colleagues, quite sarcastically, expecting them to agree that it was ridiculous.
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He shouts her out into the street for a harlot.
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Laura listened attentively while Yoyo read the speech out loud, and in the end, her eyes were glistening too.
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North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval, but it was all delightfully vague.
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She brings her notes about it to the meeting and reads them out .
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We can read the books children are reading, find out what happens in class, ask what the guidance counselor said.
something to eat/drink/read/do etc
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But he was walking to a truck stop across the street, probably getting something to eat during his break.
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It had something to do with being a man.
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It had something to do with skills, and something to do with expectation and hope.
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Most calendar programs remind you gently when you have something to do.
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No, you can't dash out for something to eat.
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Of course, the beer might have had something to do with this.
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Then I rolled up my things in a blanket and went out and had something to eat.
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You've done it a thousand times already, but you do it again, just for something to do.
widely read
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But even though his book was intended for contemplatives, it was also widely read by lay men and women.
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But he was one of the most well-informed, widely read and serious political figures in public life.
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For all its note of fantasy, however, the article was widely read and well timed.
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Herbert is widely read, where Collins is seldom even heard of.
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Local newspapers are widely read and relatively cheap to advertise in.
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Newspapers with a significant political reporting are not widely read, whereas television news programs are often among the most-watched programs.
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The older works listed first are still widely read and most are generally available in both hardcover and paperback.
you only have to read/look at/listen to etc sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Children are taught reading and writing in their first years at school.
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I do a lot of reading when I'm on vacation.
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The newspaper is trying to attract more young readers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A careful read of this book will show that underpinning it is a terrible truth.
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I would like to recommend it to both sexes as a jolly exciting read .
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It is certainly worth a good read , and I can recommend it to anyone interested in this subject.
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Not even the most unreconstructed Keynesian would ever claim that the General Theory was an easy read .
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On one level, it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read .