read

UK /ɹiːd/ US /ɹid/
verb 5noun 5name 5

Definitions

verb

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

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

Arabic reads right to left.

That sentence reads strangely.

3

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

At the moment I'm reading Milton.

4

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?

5

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

1

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.

2

Something to be read; a written work.

His thrillers are always a gripping read.

3

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.

4

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.

5

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

name

1

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

2

A male given name transferred from the surname.

3

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

4

A township in Clayton County, Iowa, United States.

5

A township in Butler County, Nebraska, United States.

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