Read vs. Write — What's the Difference?

To examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed characters, words, or sentences).

Mark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement

To utter or render aloud (written or printed material)

Compose, write, and send (a letter) to someone

To have the ability to examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed material in a given language or notation)

Compose (a text or work) for written or printed reproduction or publication; put into literary form and set down in writing

To examine and grasp the meaning of (language in a form other than written or printed characters, words, or sentences)

Enter (data) into a specified storage medium or location in store

To examine and grasp the meaning of (a graphic representation)

Underwrite (an insurance policy).

To discern and interpret the nature or significance of through close examination or sensitive observation

To form (letters, words, or symbols) on a surface such as paper with an instrument such as a pen.

To discern or anticipate through examination or observation; descry

To form (letters or words) in cursive style, especially in contrast to printing by hand.

To determine the intent or mood of

To spell

To attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to

To fill (an amount of space) with words or information

To consider (something written or printed) as having a particular meaning or significance

To put written information in the blank spaces of (a check, form, or similar document).

To foretell or predict (the future).

To produce or compose (text) in a recorded form that can be read

To receive or comprehend (a radio message, for example)

To express in writing; set down

To study or make a study of

To communicate by writing, especially by written letter

To learn or get knowledge of from something written or printed

To communicate with (someone) by writing, especially by letter

To proofread.

To compose (a musical work).

To have or use as a preferred reading in a particular passage

To underwrite, as an insurance policy.

To indicate, register, or show

To compose in legal form; draft

(Computers) To obtain (data) from a storage medium, such as an optical disc.

To indicate; mark

(Genetics) To decode or translate (a sequence of messenger RNA) into an amino acid sequence in a polypeptide chain.

To ordain or prophesy

To examine and grasp the meaning of printed or written characters, as of words or music.

(Computers) To transfer or copy (information) from memory to a storage device or output device.

To speak aloud the words that one is reading

To trace or form letters, words, or symbols on paper or another surface

To learn by reading

To produce written material, such as articles or books

To study.

To compose a letter, email, or other written communication

To have a particular wording

(ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

To contain a specific meaning

(transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).

To indicate, register, or show a measurement or figure

(transitive) To send written information to.

To have a specified character or quality for the reader

(transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.

Something that is read

To convey a fact to someone via writing.

An interpretation or assessment

(intransitive) To be an author.

Informed by reading; learned

To record data mechanically or electronically.

To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

To fill in, to complete using words.

To speak aloud words or other information that is written. often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object

To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

(transitive) To read work(s) written by (a named author).

To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.

(transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.

(finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).

To consist of certain text.

To paint a religious icon.

(ergative) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.

The act or style of writing.

To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.

(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.

To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.

To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).

Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.

To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.

To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.

To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).

To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; - often used reflexively.

To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.

To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.

To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.

(go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.

To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.

(obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).

To compose or send letters.

(obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.

Produce a literary work;

(obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.

Communicate or express by writing;

Inflection of [[:en:#Etymology_1

Have (one's written work) issued for publication;

A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.

Communicate (with) in writing;

(in combination) Something to be read; a written work.

Communicate by letter;

A person's interpretation or impression of something.

Write music;

An instance of calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult.

Mark or trace on a surface;

(biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string

Record data on a computer;

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word);

Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.

Reading.

To advise; to counsel.

To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.

To tell; to declare; to recite.

To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.

Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.

To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.

To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.

To give advice or counsel.

To tell; to declare.

To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.

To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.

To learn by reading.

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.

To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.

Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.

Something that is read;

Interpret something that is written or printed;

Have or contain a certain wording or form;

Look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed;

Obtain data from magnetic tapes;

Interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky, etc.; also of human behavior;

Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression;

Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments;

Be a student of a certain subject;

Audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role;

To hear and understand;

Make sense of a language;