Definition of "read" in Englisch

verb

(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.
(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?
(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".
(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 […]
(transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- Do you read me?
(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.
(transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
- I am reading theology at university.
(computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- to read a hard disk
- to read a port
- to read the keyboard
(transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.
(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.

noun

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 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.