What is "read"

Read \Read\ (r[=e]d), n. Rennet. See 3d Reed. [Prov. Eng.]

Read \Read\ (r[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Read (r[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reading.] [OE. reden, r[ae]den, AS. r[=ae]dan to read, advise, counsel, fr. r[=ae]d advice, counsel, r[=ae]dan (imperf. reord) to advise, counsel, guess; akin to D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. r[=a][eth]a, Goth. r[=e]dan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. r[=a]dh to succeed. [root]116. Cf. Riddle.]

1. To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] See Rede.

   Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.
   --Tyndale.

2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.

3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.]

   But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
   --Spenser.

4. To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.

   Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille.
   --Chaucer.

   Well could he rede a lesson or a story.
   --Chaucer.

5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.

   Who is't can read a woman?
   --Shak.

6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.

   An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
   --Spenser.

   Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
   --Shak.

7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.

   To read one's self in, to read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.

Read \Read\, n. [AS. r[=ae]d counsel, fr. r[=ae]dan to counsel. See Read, v. t.]

1. Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. [Obs.]

2. [ Read, v.] Reading. [Colloq.]
   --Hume.

   One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read.
   --Furnivall.

Read \Read\, v. i.

1. To give advice or counsel. [Obs.]

2. To tell; to declare. [Obs.]
   --Spenser.

3. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.

   So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.
   --Neh. viii. 8.

4. To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.

5. To learn by reading.

   I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence.
   --Swift.

6. To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.

7. To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.

   To read between the lines, to infer something different from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning as distinguished from the apparent meaning.

Read \Read\ (r[e^]d), imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.

Read \Read\ (r[e^]d), a. Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.

A poet . . . well read in Longinus.
--Addison.

Old English rædan (West Saxon), redan (Anglian) "to advise, counsel, persuade; discuss, deliberate; rule, guide; arrange, equip; forebode; read, explain; learn by reading; put in order" (related to ræd, red "advice"), from Proto-Germanic *redan (cognates: Old Norse raða, Old Frisian reda, Dutch raden, Old High German ratan, German raten "to advise, counsel, guess"), from PIE root *re(i)- "to reason, count" (cognates: Sanskrit radh- "to succeed, accomplish," Greek arithmos "number amount," Old Church Slavonic raditi "to take thought, attend to," Old Irish im-radim "to deliberate, consider"). Words from this root in most modern Germanic languages still mean "counsel, advise."\n

\nSense of "make out the character of (a person)" is attested from 1610s. Connected to riddle via notion of "interpret." Transference to "understand the meaning of written symbols" is unique to Old English and (perhaps under English influence) Old Norse raða. Most languages use a word rooted in the idea of "gather up" as their word for "read" (such as French lire, from Latin legere). Read up "study" is from 1842; read out (v.) "expel by proclamation" (Society of Friends) is from 1788. read-only in computer jargon is recorded from 1961.

1580s, "having knowledge gained from reading," in well-read, etc., past participle adjective from read (v.).

"an act of reading," 1825, from read (v.).

n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To think, believe; to consider (that). 2 (context transitive or intransitive English) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. 3 (context transitive or intransitive English) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. ''Often construed with a ''to'' phrase or an indirect object.''

n. something that is read; "the article was a very good read"

1. v. interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"

2. have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?" [syn: say]

3. look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; "The King will read the proclamation at noon"

4. obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer" [syn: scan]

5. interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky, etc.; also of human behavior; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The gypsy read his fate in the crystal ball"

6. interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!" [syn: take]

7. indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'" [syn: register, show, record]

8. be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam" [syn: learn, study, take]

9. audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; "He is auditioning for `Julius Cesar' at Stratford this year"

10. to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!"

11. make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: understand, interpret, translate]

Read is a surname of English origins.

READ Magazine is a children's classroom magazine for grades 6–10, published by Weekly Reader Corporation. It includes a mix of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction, including plays, personal narratives, poetry, and more to help build reading comprehension and verbal skills.

READ has 15 printed issues and 3 electronic issues per publishing year, and features the work of a number of illustrators, including Bethany Culp, Alex Bradley, Noma Bliss, and many others.

Read may refer to:

• Read (process), language acquisition, communication, and learning
• Read (magazine), children's magazine
• Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1999
• Rural Educational and Development Foundation, not-for-profit educational network in rural Pakistan
• Read (computer), to retrieve data from a storage device
• read (system call), a low level IO function on a file descriptor in a computer
• Read, a term relating to " passing" in gender identity
• Read (surname), people with this surname
• Read, Lancashire, town in England
• Read, West Virginia
• Read codes, a standard clinical terminology system used in General Practice in the United Kingdom
• Read (automobile), American car manufactured 1913-1915
• Read Township, Butler County, Nebraska

In modern POSIX compliant operating systems, a program that needs to access data from a file stored in a file system uses the read system call. The file is identified by a file descriptor that is normally obtained from a previous call to open. This system call reads in data in bytes, the number of which is specified by the caller, from the file and stores then into a buffer supplied by the calling process.

The read system call takes three arguments:

1. The file descriptor of the file,
2. the buffer where the read data is to be stored and
3. the number of bytes to be read from the file.

In biology, genomics, transcriptomics, DNA-Seq or RNA-Seq context, "read" means a short sequence of dna, typically 25-400 base pairs long. Basically, reads are raw sequences that come off a sequencing machine. In the RNA-Seq methodology, RNA is converted in DNA ( reverse transcription), fragmented and sequenced based on High-throughput sequencing technologies; the final result is millions of reads.

Read (first name and dates unknown) was an English first-class cricketer who made a single appearance for All-England against the Hambledon Club at the Artillery Ground in 1773. Blake made one known first-class appearance, scoring 13 runs in his only innings. He did not bowl.

As Read had established his reputation by 1773, he must have been active for some years previously and his career probably began in the 1760s. Very few players were mentioned by name in contemporary reports and there are no other references to Read.

The Read car was manufactured by the Read Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan from 1913-1914. It produced a five-seater touring car costing $850. It was powered by a 4-cylinder 3.3 liter engine, and had a grey body with black striping.

''' read ''' is a command found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It reads a line of input from standard input or a file passed as an argument to its -u flag, and assigns it to a variable. In Linux based shells, like Bash, it is present as a shell built in function, and not as a separate executable file.