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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 LGBT 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

(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.

(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, frequently humorous) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.

(informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.

(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, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.

(computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).

(transitive, LGBT) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

(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.

(go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.

The verb "read" is inflected in the simple past tense and past participle forms.