A Quick and Simple Dictionary

Read

1. Proper noun.  (surname, from Old English) , a less common spelling variant of Reid.
2. Proper noun.  (given name, male) transferred from the surname.
3. Noun.  A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
4. Verb.  (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
5. Verb.  (transitive, or) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
6. Verb.  (transitive, or) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. ''Often construed with a ''to'' phrase or an indirect object.''.
7. Verb.  (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, etc.
8. Verb.  To consist of certain text.
9. Verb.  (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
10. Verb.  (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); (non-gloss definition, used to introduce an emendation of a text) .
11. Verb.  (informal, usually) (non-gloss definition, Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term) .
12. Verb.  (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
13. Verb.  (transitive, British) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
14. Verb.  (transitive, transgenderism) to recognise (someone) as being transgender.
15. Verb.  (past of, [[#Verb) .