read

(intransitive, transitive)(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.

Đồng nghĩa: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan

(intransitive, transitive)(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?

Đồng nghĩa: read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak

(transitive)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.

To consist of certain text.

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

Đồng nghĩa: say, run

(ergative)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 […]

Đồng nghĩa: sic pro

(transitive)(transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

Do you read me?

Đồng nghĩa: copy, hear, receive

(transitive)(transitive, rail transport) 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.

(Commonwealth, transitive)(transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.

I am reading theology at university.

Đồng nghĩa: learn, study

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

to read a hard disk

to read a port

to read the keyboard

(transitive)(transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

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

Đồng nghĩa: clock

(at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.

Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade […]

[One] assumes that such language contests are racially motivated—black folks talking back to white folks. However, the ball world makes it clear that blacks can read each other too.

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

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.

(in compounds)(in combination) 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.

(at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) 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]."

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