read between the lines
To infer a meaning that is not stated explicitly.
If you read between the lines a little, you will realize that he has deeper motives.
verb
To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
Have you read this book?
He doesn’t like to read.
To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
Arabic reads right to left.
That sentence reads strangely.
To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
At the moment I'm reading Milton.
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?
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.
noun
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.
Something to be read; a written work.
His thrillers are always a gripping read.
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.
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.
The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
name
A surname from Old English, a less common spelling variant of Reid.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7634).
A township in Clayton County, Iowa, United States.
A township in Butler County, Nebraska, United States.