Usually means: Interprets or comprehends written text.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. reads: Merriam-Webster
  2. reads: Collins English Dictionary
  3. reads: Vocabulary.com
  4. Read's, Reads, reads: Wordnik
  5. reads: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. reads: Wiktionary
  7. reads: Dictionary.com
  8. reads: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Read's, Reads, The Reads: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. reads: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reads: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reads: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reads: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. READS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. reads: Idioms

(Note: See read as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Read)

verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
verb:  (ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
verb:  (transitive, metonymically) To read a work or works written by the named author.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
verb:  (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
verb:  To consist of certain text.
verb:  (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
verb:  (by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
verb:  (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
verb:  (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
verb:  (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
verb:  (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
verb:  (go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
verb:  (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
verb:  (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
verb:  (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
noun:  A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
noun:  (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
noun:  A person's interpretation or impression of something.
noun:  (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
noun:  (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
noun:  A surname from Old English, a less common spelling variant of Reid.
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7634).
noun:  A township in Clayton County, Iowa, United States.
noun:  A township in Butler County, Nebraska, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
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