Used in a Sentence

reads

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for reads.

Editorial note

Btw, nobody reads books because they make choices for you, or teach you how to make choices.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

To consist of certain text.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of reads gathered in one view.

verb

To consist of certain text.

verb

(transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

verb

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reads.

verb

To consist of certain text.

verb

(transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

verb

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

verb

(transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author.

Example sentences

1

Btw, nobody reads books because they make choices for you, or teach you how to make choices.

2

Comments, on the other hand, will be seen by whoever reads the articles where the comments have been made.

3

Currently, 100's of million of reads need to be generated to just detect the highest expressed circRNAs.

4

No, that reads as Vic Gundotra being the driving force behind this and Page buying in fully.

5

RNA that come from specific tissues and partition those reads out as expression for those tissues?

6

Surely at least one person who works at microsoft reads hacker news, can any of you confirm or deny this ridiculousness?

7

The continuous references about how many books he has and reads also threw me off.

8

And if nobody ever reads the article, a bad comment there won't make any difference.

9

But all this reads very differently to someone who looks at this stuff every day.

10

Whatever happened to the idea that a program that reads data checks to see if the data is okay and makes sure that bad data can't cause the program to hurt anything?

11

She is extremely intelligent, reads faster than anyone I've encountered and is very current with the times.

12

It might have something to do with the way a conductor reads full-score.

Quote examples

1

The article reads like the majority of employees are men, making 70 degrees optimal for maximum employee happiness, but "just leave things as they are" doesn't seem to be the solution the article is driving at, either.

2

Roughly transposed to the 17th century, that statement reads "What's the incentive for this n * to pick more cotton if he is well-fed?" Repulsive and sickening.

3

There are many more well known nouns called Columbia than just the university, but amusingly the very first sentence on Wikipedia reads "'Columbia' is a frequent misspelling of Colombia, a large country in South America.

4

"Mickey D's first introduced a lobster roll — then called the "McLobster" — nationally in 1993" [1] IMO, no one reads that and assumes that McDs invented the lobster roll.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use reads in a sentence?

Btw, nobody reads books because they make choices for you, or teach you how to make choices.

What does reads mean?

To consist of certain text.

What part of speech is reads?

reads is commonly used as verb.