Readability

Definition

read /ri:d/ v ( pt, pp read /red/) ၁။ (used in the simple tenses or with can/be able ) စာဖတ္သည္။ teach children (how) to read and write. ❍ learn (how) to read ❍ read shorthand/Chinese (characters)/Braille/music ❍ I can't read your writing. ❍ I can't read that road sign without my glasses. ၂။ ~ sth (to sb/oneself) စာဖတ္သည္။ ဖတ္ျပသည္။ ဖတ္႐ႈသည္။ I never have enough time to read/for reading. ❍ read a book/a magazine/the newspaper ❍ a novel that is not read much these days (ie few people read it) ❍ The children were told to read quietly to themselves for half an hour. ❍ She read (to us) from her book. ❍ He read the poem aloud. ❍ He read the article through twice. ❍ Read this over for mistakes. ❍ Read what the instructions say. ❍ She read a story to us/read us a story. See also PROOFREAD ၃။ ဖတ္သည္။ ၾကည့္ သည္။ read the news/the share prices ❍ I read about her death in today's paper. ❍ I read that he had resigned. ၄။ ~ (for) sth ( Brit ) တကၠသိုလ္တြင္ ဘာသာရပ္တစ္ခုခုကို သင္ သည္။ read English/law at Oxford ❍ read for a physics degree ❍ read for the Bar (ie study law to become a BARRISTER). ၅။ မွန္းဆၾကည့္သည္။ (လႈပ္ရွားမႈ၊ မူဟန္ အေနအထား၊ သြင္ျပင္လကၡဏာမွ) အဓိပၸာယ္ေကာက္သည္၊ အတိတ္ နိမိတ္ဖတ္သည္၊ ေကာက္ခ်က္ေဖာ္ထုတ္သည္။ read sb's mind/thoughts ❍ read sb's lips (ie look at the movements of sb's lips to learn what they are saying) ❍ read (sb's fortune in) the cards ❍ Doctors must be able to read symptoms correctly. ❍ How do you read the present situation? ❍ Silence must not always be read as consent. See also LIP-READ ၆။ ေရးသားသည္။ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ The sign reads ‘Keep Left’. ❍ I've changed the last paragraph. It now reads as follows… ၇။ (က) (အတိုင္း အတာပမာဏ တစ္ရပ္ကို) ျပသည္။ What does the thermometer read? (ခ) (မီတာစေသာ တိုင္းတာမႈကိရိယာကို) ဖတ္သည္။ ၾကည့္သည္။ read the gas/electricity meter ❍ I can't read what the thermometer says. ၈။ ဖတ္ရာ၌ …ခံစားမႈရရိွသည္။ The story reads well/badly. ❍ The poem reads like (ie sounds as if it is) a translation. ၉။ ေရဒီယိုလႊင့္ခ်က္ ဖမ္းယူရရိွသည္။ ‘Are you reading me?’ ‘I'm reading you loud and clear. ’ ၁၀။ ~ A for B; ~ B as A အစားထိုး ျပင္ဆင္ယူပါ။ For ‘neat’ in line 3 read ‘nest’. n [sing] ( infml esp Brit ) ၁။ ဖတ္ျခင္း။ have a long/quiet/little read ❍ Can I have a read of your magazine? ၂။ (with an adj ) ဖတ္စရာ (ေကာင္းေသာ)စာအုပ္။ The novel is/makes an excellent read. /red/ adj (preceded by an adv ) … ေလ့လာမႈရိွေသာ။ a well-read person ❍ be widely read in the classics. ❏ readable /'ri:dǝbl/ adj ၁။ ဖတ္ေပ်ာ္ေသာ။ a highly readable style/essay/article. ၂။ ဖတ္၍ရေသာ။ Compare LEGIBLE readability /ri:dǝ'blǝti/ n [U] ❏ read sth back [ PHRV ] ျပန္ဖတ္ျပသည္။ I'll dictate the letter and then you can read it back to me. ❏ read between the lines [ IDM ] အတိအလင္း ေဖာ္ျပမထား ေသာ ဆိုလိုခ်က္ကို သံုးသပ္ေဖာ္ထုတ္မိသည္။ I read between the lines of her letter that she had driven him out, and I rejoiced. ❏ read sth into sth [ PHRV ] အပိုေဆာင္းၿပီး ေကာက္ခ်က္ခ် သည္။ You have read too much into what she said. I'm sure she didn't mean it! ❏ read sb like a book [ IDM ] ( infml ) (တစ္ေယာက္ ေယာက္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍) အူမေခ်းခါးကအစ သိသည္။ I can read you like a book: you're not sorry at all. ❏ read on [ PHRV ] ဆက္ဖတ္သည္။ That's the story so far. Now read on. ❏ read-only memory n ( abbr ROM) ( computing ) ျပဳျပင္ထုတ္ပယ္မရေအာင္ စီမံထည့္သြင္းထားေသာ မွတ္ဉာဏ္ အပိုင္း။ ထာဝရမွတ္ဉာဏ္။ The most important programs are in the read-only memory. Compare RANDOM-ACCESS ❏ read-out n ( computing ) ဖန္သားေပၚ (သို႔) ပံုႏိွပ္စာအျဖစ္ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာက ျပသထုတ္ေပးေသာ အခ်က္အလက္။ ❏ read sth out [ PHRV ] ဖတ္ျပသည္။ She read out the letter to the whole family. ❑ read (sb) the Riot Act [ IDM ] ( Brit ) ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ ဆံုးမတားျမစ္သည္။ When he arrived late again, the teacher read him the Riot Act. ❏ read sb/sth up; read up on sb/sth [ PHRV ] အေလးအနက္ ဖတ္႐ႈေလ့လာသည္။ I've got to read Nelson up/read up on Nelson for the history exam. ❏ take it/sth as read [ IDM ] တိုတိုႏွင့္လိုရင္းဆိုၾကစို႔။ We can take it as read that you want the job.

Examples

1. I read a few chapters of a book every night.
2. He was sitting reading in the waiting room.
3. [read and write] : By the age of five
4. he was able to read and write.
5. [read something from cover to cover] : I always read the paper from cover to cover.
6. [read (something) to someone] : Reading to young children helps develop their language skills.
7. [read someone something] : Read me that last sentence again.
8. [read (something) aloud/out loud] : I’m going to read this poem aloud.
9. [read from something] : She will be reading from her latest novel.
10. [read about] : He likes reading about wildlife.
11. [read something in something] : We read it in the local paper.
12. [for something
13. read something] : On page 61
14. for ‘three thousand’
15. read ‘three million’.
16. [read something as something] : The figure £600 should be read as $600.
17. Has the man been to read the gas meter?
18. They had read the situation extremely accurately.
19. [read something as something] : We had read their decision as an admission of failure.
20. The label read
21. ‘Suitable only for children over three’.
22. The thermometer has been reading over 90 degrees all day.
23. It was difficult to read his expression.
24. In general
25. the script reads beautifully.
26. This is Charlie Alpha Five. Do you read me?