read

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

   • Have you read this book?
   • He doesn’t like to read.
2. 2

   To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to…

   To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)

   • He read us a passage from his new book.
   • All right, class, who wants to read next?
   • In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
3. 3

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

   • She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.
   • I can read his feelings in his face.
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   1. 4

      To consist of certain text.

      • On the door hung a sign that read "No admittance".
   2. 5

      To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one

      To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.

      • In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
      • The sign of coefficient a(3) in the general formula of Table 2 should be plus instead of minus. Thus, the formula should read […]
   3. 6

      To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

      • Do you read me?
      • Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
   4. 7

      To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).

      • A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance.
   5. 8

      To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.

      • I am reading theology at university.
      • Crabbe wanted him to go to England, to read for a degree there.
   6. 9

      To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).

      • to read a hard disk
      • to read a port
      • to read the keyboard
   7. 10

      To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

      • Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.
   8. 11

      To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.

      • I've seen drags "read" an unattractive transsexual until she was almost in tears.
      • Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade […]
   9. 12

      To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.

   10. 13

       To think, believe

       To think, believe; to consider (that).

       • But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read[…] / That short reuenge the man may ouertake […]
   11. 14

       To advise

       To advise; to counsel. See rede.

       • [T]herfore / I red the [thee] / gete the [thee] to Gods vvorde ãd [and] therby trye all doctrine and agenſt that receave nothinge.
       • This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, / A monster vile, whom God and man does hate: / Therefore I read beware.
   12. 15

       To tell

       To tell; to declare; to recite.

       • But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
   13. 16

       A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of…

       A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.

       • I had a read of the evening papers.
       • One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read.
       • And when he finishes supper / Planning to have a read at the evening paper / It's Put a screw in this wall— / He has no time at all[…]
   14. 17

       Something to be read

       Something to be read; a written work.

       • His thrillers are always a gripping read.
   15. 18

       A person's interpretation or impression of something.

       • What's your read of the current political situation?
       • On the quarterback's first read of the situation, his target receiver was not open.
   16. 19

       An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws

       An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).

       • [As] Corey points out, "if you and I are both black queens then we can't call each other black queens because that's not a read. That's a [fact]."
       • Like most African-American women, Pearlie Mae uses snapping in many of the same ways that black gay men use it: to accentuate a read.
       • I learned that it was acceptable to be witty, especially if you were one of the wearblackallthetime, deconstructivist, radical, feministbitchydiva girls who could give a harsh read (i.e., critique) or throw shade […].
   17. 20

       The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid…

       The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.

   18. 21

       simple past and past participle of read

   19. 22

       A surname from Old English, a less common spelling variant of Reid.

   20. 23

       A male given name transferred from the surname.

   21. 24

       A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref…

       A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7634).

   22. 25

       A township in Clayton County, Iowa, United States.

   23. 26

       A township in Butler County, Nebraska, United States.

   24. 27

       An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.

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