Read

Have you read this book?

He doesn’t like to read.

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]

She reads Playgirl magazine, goes to a male-strip joint and then complains about sexual harassment on the job.

On this occasion he was carrying in his right hand a copy of the English-language China News, an odd touch because the President did not read English.

Arabic reads right to left.

That sentence reads strangely.

At the moment I'm reading Milton.

He read us a passage from his new book.

All right, class, who wants to read next?

In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement. […]

She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.

I can read his feelings in his face.

On the door hung a sign that read "No admittance".

In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.

The sign of coefficient a(3) in the general formula of Table 2 should be plus instead of minus. Thus, the formula should read […]

Our school focuses primarily on the liberal arts (read "useless degrees").

Eliminate illogical (read: stupid) answer choices.

Parents, meanwhile, deplored [Bratz dolls] as far too adult (read: slutty) for kids, accusing the doe-eyed, pouty-lipped toys of fostering unhealthy body images among young girls.

I also did a long-wear test, as y'do and after scoffing my face with some food (read: I am feral when it comes to a midday snack, so what), the striking colour that I was wearing, named 'Jet', had stayed put. Pigment, check ✅.

Do you read me?

Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?

A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance.

I am reading theology at university.

Crabbe wanted him to go to England, to read for a degree there.

to read a hard disk

to read a port

to read the keyboard

Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.

I've seen drags "read" an unattractive transsexual until she was almost in tears.

Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade […]

CB [a black gay person being quoted]: "So, one time I read him and we were standing downstairs at the front desk in the dorm and I read him and there was this little bell […]." In the first example, the interviewee [CB] used snapping to read his white friend in a playful way, […].

[One] assumes that such language contests are racially motivated—black folks talking back to white folks. However, the ball world makes it clear that blacks can read each other too.

But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read[…] / That short reuenge the man may ouertake […]

[T]herfore / I red the [thee] / gete the [thee] to Gods vvorde ãd [and] therby trye all doctrine and agenſt that receave nothinge.

This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, / A monster vile, whom God and man does hate: / Therefore I read beware.

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

I had a read of the evening papers.

One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read.

And when he finishes supper / Planning to have a read at the evening paper / It's Put a screw in this wall— / He has no time at all[…]

In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.

His thrillers are always a gripping read.

What's your read of the current political situation?

On the quarterback's first read of the situation, his target receiver was not open.

[As] Corey points out, "if you and I are both black queens then we can't call each other black queens because that's not a read. That's a [fact]."

Like most African-American women, Pearlie Mae uses snapping in many of the same ways that black gay men use it: to accentuate a read.

I learned that it was acceptable to be witty, especially if you were one of the wearblackallthetime, deconstructivist, radical, feministbitchydiva girls who could give a harsh read (i.e., critique) or throw shade […].