Speak vs. Read — What's the Difference?

Say something in order to convey information or to express a feeling

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

Talk to in order to reprove or advise

To utter or render aloud (written or printed material)

(of behaviour, an object, etc.) serve as evidence for something

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

(of a musical instrument or other object) make a sound when functioning

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

To produce words by means of sounds; talk

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

To express thoughts or feelings to convey information in speech or writing

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

To convey information or ideas in text

To discern or anticipate through examination or observation; descry

To engage in conversation

To determine the intent or mood of

To be friendly or willing to communicate; be on speaking terms

To attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to

To deliver an address or lecture

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

To act as spokesperson

To foretell or predict (the future).

To convey information through another person

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

To convey a message by nonverbal means

To study or make a study of

To give an indication or suggestion

To learn or get knowledge of from something written or printed

To be appealing

To proofread.

To make a reservation or request. Used with for

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

To produce a characteristic sound

To indicate, register, or show

To give off a sound on firing. Used of guns or cannon.

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

To say with the voice; pronounce or utter

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

To converse in or be able to converse in (a language)

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

To express in words; tell

To speak aloud the words that one is reading

(Nautical) To hail and communicate with (another vessel) at sea.

To learn by reading

To convey by nonverbal means

To study.

(intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.

To have a particular wording

To have a conversation.

To contain a specific meaning

(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.

To indicate, register, or show a measurement or figure

(intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.

To have a specified character or quality for the reader

To be able to communicate in a language.

Something that is read

(by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.

An interpretation or assessment

(transitive) To utter.

Informed by reading; learned

(transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.

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

To understand (as though it were a language).

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

(intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.

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

Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.

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

To address; to accost; to speak to.

To consist of certain text.

Language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.

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

Speech, conversation.

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

(dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

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

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.

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

To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.

To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).

To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.

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

To discourse; to make mention; to tell.

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

To give sound; to sound.

To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.

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

To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.

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

To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.

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

To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.

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

To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.

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

To address; to accost; to speak to.

Inflection of [[:en:#Etymology_1

Express in speech;

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

Exchange thoughts; talk with;

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

Use language;

A person's interpretation or impression of something.

Give a speech to;

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

Make a characteristic or natural sound;

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

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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;