read.

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. To be understood or physically read in a specific way.

Arabic reads right to left.

That sentence reads strangely.

To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. To read a work or works written by the named author.

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.

To consist of certain text.

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

To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.

To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text. Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.

Our school focuses primarily on the liberal arts (read "useless degrees").

To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

Do you read me?

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.

To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.

I am reading theology at university.

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

to read a hard disk

to read a port

To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

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

To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.

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

To think, believe; to consider (that).

To advise; to counsel. See rede.

To tell; to declare; to recite.

To predict another player's actions before they perform them or before they are apparent.

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.

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”).

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

simple past and past participle of read