Read
Read verb - To go over and mentally take in the content of.
How words are described
| old | old read | old scale |
| good | good read | good scale |
| long | long read | long scale |
| short | short read | short scale |
| Other adjectives: great, personal, different, overall. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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A new rating scale was devised to even out the score distribution, and was meant to be read in context with the review itself rather than be taken as an absolute.
Source: Four Point Scale -
Phil also can't read music and only knows the scale as far as "do re me fa..." and teaches the children accordingly.
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Gameplay follows many RPG tropes, albeit at a different scale: for "character", read "ship"; for "party", read "fleet"; for "town" or "dungeon", read "planet".
Source: Video Game / Star Control
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Scale and Read. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/read/scale
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Scale or Read. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/read/scale.
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