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

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