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What does read mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word read? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
  2. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
  3. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
  4. (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
  5. To consist of certain text.
  6. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
  7. (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
  8. (informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
  9. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
  10. (transitive, Britain) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
  11. (computing) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
  12. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
  13. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
  14. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
  15. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
Noun
  1. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
  2. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
  3. (in combination) That which is to be read
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