Read vs Contract - What's the Difference?
Definition as Noun
- a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
- a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
- (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
Definition as Verb
- make smaller
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- squeeze or press together
- compress or concentrate
- make or become more narrow or restricted
- become smaller or draw together
- engage by written agreement
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- enter into a contractual arrangement
Definition as Verb
- interpret something that is written or printed
- look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
- interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
- audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
- to hear and understand
- be a student of a certain subject
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- make sense of a language
Examples
- "The heat contracted the woollen garment"
- "The manuscript must be shortened"
- "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
- "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
- "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
- "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
- "They signed two new pitchers for the next season"
- "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
- "the article was a very good read"
- "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"
- "The King will read the proclamation at noon"
- "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"
- "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"
- "I read you loud and clear!"
- "She is reading for the bar exam"
- "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
- "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"
- "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
- "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"
- "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"