Definitions
1.verbTo look at and interpret letters or other information that is written."Have you read this book?"
2.verbTo speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object."All right, class, who wants to read next?"
3.verbTo read work(s) written by (a named author)."At the moment I'm reading Milton."
4.verbTo interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from."I can read his feelings in his face."
5.verbTo consist of certain text."On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance"."
6.verbOf text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way."Arabic reads right to left."
7.verbTo substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
8.verb(usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
9.verbTo be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection."Do you read me?"
10.verbTo 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."
11.verb(except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks."I am reading theology at university."
12.verbTo fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.)."to read a hard disk; to read a port; to read the keyboard"
13.verbTo think, believe; to consider (that).
14.verbTo advise; to counsel. See rede.
15.verbTo tell; to declare; to recite.
16.verbTo recognise (someone) as being transgender."Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me."
17.verbTo call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
18.nounThe process of interpreting written language.
19.nounThe process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
20.nounA value indicated by a measuring device."a speedometer reading."
21.nounAn event at which written material is read aloud."a poetry reading."
22.nounAn interpretation."a reading of the current situation."
23.nounSomething to read; reading material.
24.nounThe extent of what one has read."He's a man of good reading."
25.noun(legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
26.nounA piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience: readings from the Bible