1. v. (transitive, or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
have you read this book?; he doesn’t like to read
2. v. (transitive, or intransitive) 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?
3. v. To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.
I can read his feelings in his face.
4. v. To consist of certain text.
On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance".
The passage reads differently in the earlier manuscripts.
5. v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
Arabic reads right to left.
That sentence reads strangely.
6. v. To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
7. v. (informal usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
8. v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
Do you read me?
9. v. (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
I am reading theology at university.
10. v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
to read a hard disk; to read a port; to read the keyboard
11. v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
12. v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
13. v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
14. v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.
15. v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
16. v. past tense of read
17. v. past participle of read
18. s. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
19. s. (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
His thrillers are always a gripping read.
20. s. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of read, reading, calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult.
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