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vb. 1 (context transitive idiomatic English) To read something and say the words to inform other people. 2 (context transitive idiomatic US English) (''of a device'') To read some data and inform the person using the device. 3 (context transitive legal English) To interpret a part of a law so that it is not strike down but is rendered of no effect or applicability.
Usage examples of "read out".
John Andrews stood in the center of the floor with his arms folded, half amused, half angry, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, listening to the sound of the typewriter and of the man's voice as he read out each word of the report he was copying.
Could I ask the clerk of the court to read out in whose name the lease is held, and from whose account the rentals were paid?
After this, the Notary or clerk shall publicly read out the crimes of which the accused has been convicted, and those of which she is strongly suspected as a heretic.
They knew it was not of the slightest use to appeal to the Bellman about it-- he would only refer to his Naval Code, and read out in pathetic tones Admiralty Instructions which none of them had ever been able to understand-- so it generally ended in its being fastened on, anyhow, across the rudder.
If you learned how you could gradually tilt the temporal axis, the axis of true depth, until successive layers were super- imposed and a vertical message-a new message-could be read out.
Holding his tortoise-shell-rimmed pince-nez an inch or two in front of his eyes, he read out names from a list.
In harsh, unemotional tones, he read out lists of towns and cities sacked.
Russian-placed sensors read out by Russian telemetry equipment—.
Their lists went forth every evening, and were read out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prisoners.