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Writes vs. Reads — What's the Difference?

Writes vs. Reads — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Writes and Reads

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Writes

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

Reads

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

Writes

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

Reads

To utter or render aloud (written or printed material)
Read poems to the students.

Writes

To spell
How do you write your name?.
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Reads

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

Writes

To fill (an amount of space) with words or information
Wrote five pages in an hour.

Reads

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

Writes

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

Reads

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

Writes

To produce or compose (text) in a recorded form that can be read
Write a poem.
Write a letter.

Reads

To discern and interpret the nature or significance of through close examination or sensitive observation
The tracker read the trail for signs of game.

Writes

To express in writing; set down
Write one's thoughts.

Reads

To discern or anticipate through examination or observation; descry
"I can read abandonment in a broken door or shattered window" (William H. Gass).

Writes

To communicate by writing, especially by written letter
She wrote that she was planning to visit.

Reads

To determine the intent or mood of
Can read your mind like a book.
A hard person to read.

Writes

To communicate with (someone) by writing, especially by letter
Wrote me to tell me she had moved again.

Reads

To attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to
Read her words differently than I did.

Writes

To compose (a musical work).

Reads

To consider (something written or printed) as having a particular meaning or significance
Read the novel as a parable.

Writes

To underwrite, as an insurance policy.

Reads

To foretell or predict (the future).

Writes

To compose in legal form; draft
Write a will.

Reads

To receive or comprehend (a radio message, for example)
I read you loud and clear.

Writes

To indicate; mark
"Utter dejection was written on every face" (Winston S. Churchill).

Reads

To study or make a study of
Read history as an undergraduate.

Writes

To ordain or prophesy
It was written that the empire would fall.

Reads

To learn or get knowledge of from something written or printed
Read that interest rates would continue to rise.

Writes

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

Reads

To proofread.

Writes

To trace or form letters, words, or symbols on paper or another surface
People who cannot read or write.

Reads

To have or use as a preferred reading in a particular passage
For change read charge.

Writes

To produce written material, such as articles or books
She wrote for most of her adult life.

Reads

To indicate, register, or show
The dial reads 32°.

Writes

To compose a letter, email, or other written communication
Please write while you are away.

Reads

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

Writes

Plural of write

Reads

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

Reads

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

Reads

To speak aloud the words that one is reading
Read to the children every night.

Reads

To learn by reading
Read about the storm in the paper today.

Reads

To study.

Reads

To have a particular wording
Recite the poem exactly as it reads.

Reads

To contain a specific meaning
As the law reads, the defendant is guilty.

Reads

To indicate, register, or show a measurement or figure
How does your new watch read?.

Reads

To have a specified character or quality for the reader
Your poems read well.

Reads

Something that is read
"The book is a page-turner as well as a very satisfying read" (Frank Conroy).

Reads

An interpretation or assessment
Gave us her read of the political situation.

Reads

Informed by reading; learned
Only sparsely read in fields outside my profession.

Reads

Plural of read

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