S: (v) take, read (interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression) "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"
S: (v) read (interpret something that is written or printed) "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"
S: (v) read, scan (obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources) "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
S: (v) educe, evoke, elicit, extract, draw out (deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)) "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
S: (v) read (interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior) "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"
S: (v) take, read (interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression) "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"
S: (v) learn, study, read, take (be a student of a certain subject) "She is reading for the bar exam"
S: (v) read, register, show, record (indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments) "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
S: (v) read (audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role) "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"
S: (n) humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)) "the college of arts and sciences"
S: (n) neoclassicism (revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation)
S: (n) classicism, classicalism (a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms) "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans"
S: (n) Romanticism, Romantic Movement (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization) "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"
S: (n) interior design (the art of designing the interior decoration for a house, office, or other architectural space)
S: (n) English (the discipline that studies the English language and literature)
S: (n) history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings) "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
S: (n) art history (the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture)
S: (n) chronology (the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events)
S: (n) Sinology (the study of Chinese history and language and culture)
S: (n) stemmatology, stemmatics (the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)) "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"; "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics"
S: (n) trivium ((Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence)
S: (n) quadrivium ((Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy)