read
noun
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L326411 on Wikidata ↗verb
- (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written
- read aloud
- to extract data from a data storage
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹiːd/ / /ɹid/ / /rɛːd/ / /ɹɛd/ / /ɹed/
name
Etymology: English and Scottish surname, variant of Reed.
- 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.
- An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”). Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”), Persian رده (rade, “to order, to arrange, class”). In West Germanic the verb had a sense “interpret”, which developed further into “interpret letters” in English and “interpret by intuition, guess” on the continent. Compare rede.
- 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.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English redde (simple past), red, rad (past participle), from Old English rǣdde (simple past), (ġe)rǣded (past participle), conjugations of rǣdan (“to read”); see above.
- simple past and past participle of read