Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word READ

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Definitions of READ

1. To consist of certain text.
2. A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
3. A person's interpretation or impression of something.
4. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
5. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
6. (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
7. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
8. (transitive, rail) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
9. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
10. (go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
11. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
12. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
13. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
14. (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
15. (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
16. inflection of read
17. A male given name from surnames.
18. A village and cpar in, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7634).
19. A twp in Clayton County, Iowa, USA.
20. A twp in Butler County, Nebraska, USA.
21. A unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, USA.
22. (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
23. (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
24. (transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
25. (at first especially in the blackLGBTQcommunity) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
26. (at first especially in the blackLGBTQcommunity) An instance of reading.
27. A surname from Old English, a less common spelling variant of Reid.

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Examples of Using READ in a Sentence

• In Christianity, the word apocryphal (ἀπόκρυφος) was first applied to writings that were to be read privately rather than in the public context of church services.
• ABCD (add, browse, change, delete) a variation of create, read, update and delete in computer programming.
• Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was a leader in the civil rights movement.
• In poker the top card of the deck stub is burned at the beginning of each betting round, so that players who might have been able to read markings on that card during the previous round are less able to take advantage of that information.
• It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille displays that connect to computers and smartphone devices.
• Unlike other self-balancing binary search trees, the B-tree is well suited for storage systems that read and write relatively large blocks of data, such as databases and file systems.
• After leaving school, Dexter completed his national service with the Royal Corps of Signals and then read classics at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1953 and receiving a master's degree in 1958.
• His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their personal or sexual themes.
• In computing, denormalization is the process of trying to improve the read performance of a database, at the expense of losing some write performance, by adding redundant copies of data or by grouping data.
• Thus, a representation that compresses a file's storage size from 10 MB to 2 MB has a compression ratio of 10/2 = 5, often notated as an explicit ratio, 5:1 (read "five" to "one"), or as an implicit ratio, 5/1.
• In the Vatican copy, the e of Dagome might have an s adscriptum (similar to cedilla), although the Vatican copyist read iudex literally, relating it to Sardinia and its four "judges".
• This may make them more comfortable to read, and provide a wider viewing angle than most light-emitting displays.
• The English architect William Burges admitted in his late life "We all cribbed on Viollet-le-Duc even though no one could read French".
• The Elamite name is ultimately derived from cuneiform 𒌓𒄒𒉣; read as Buranun in Sumerian and Purattu in Akkadian; many cuneiform signs have a Sumerian pronunciation and an Akkadian pronunciation, taken from a Sumerian word and an Akkadian word that mean the same.
• org website was launched, "free software" was defined referring to "three levels of freedom" by adding an explicit mention of the freedom to study the software (which could be read in the two-point definition as being part of the freedom to change the program).
• The former is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children.
• Translation is accomplished by the ribosome, which links proteinogenic amino acids in an order specified by messenger RNA (mRNA), using transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules to carry amino acids and to read the mRNA three nucleotides at a time.
• The proof of Gödel's completeness theorem given by Kurt Gödel in his doctoral dissertation of 1929 (and a shorter version of the proof, published as an article in 1930, titled "The completeness of the axioms of the functional calculus of logic" (in German)) is not easy to read today; it uses concepts and formalisms that are no longer used and terminology that is often obscure.
• This is evidenced in DNA ancestry read outs where the average Haitian consistently tests at nearly 100 percent sub-Saharan African DNA.
• The platters are paired with magnetic heads, usually arranged on a moving actuator arm, which read and write data to the platter surfaces.

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