read

Definitions

• (transitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
• (transitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
• (transitive) To read work(s) written by (a named author).
• (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from.
• To consist of certain text.
• (ergative) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
• (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); .
• (informal) .
• (transitive) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
• (transitive) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal)
• (transitive) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
• (computing) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
• (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
• (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede (rede).
• (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
• (transitive) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
• (at first especially in the black) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.