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      read
      noun
      A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
      (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
      A person's interpretation or impression of something.
      (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
      (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
      A surname from Old English, a less common spelling variant of Reid.
      A male given name transferred from the surname.
      A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7634).
      A township in Clayton County, Iowa, United States.
      A township in Butler County, Nebraska, United States.
      An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
      verb
      (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
      (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
      (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
      (transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author.
      (ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
      To consist of certain text.
      (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
      (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
      (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
      (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
      (transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
      (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
      (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
      (by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
      (go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
      (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
      (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
      (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
      Synonyms for read
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