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to read or peruse written or printed matter. to utter aloud or render in speech written or printed words that one is perusing: to read to a person. noun an act or instance of reading: Give the agreement a careful read before you sign it. something that is read: Her new novel is a wonderful read. SEE MORE DEFINITIONS OTHER WORDS FOR read

read verb (STUDY) [ I or T ] law UK formal or specialized to study at university or to study for a specialized qualification: They're both reading history at Cambridge. She's reading for the Bar (= studying to become a type of lawyer called a barrister). SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Idioms read someone's lips read someone's mind

read verb (STUDY) [ I or T ] law UK formal or specialized to study at university or to study for a specialized qualification: They're both reading history at Cambridge. She's reading for the Bar (= studying to become a type of lawyer called a barrister). SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Idioms read someone's lips read someone's mind

Definition of read 1 as in to scan to go over and mentally take in the content of he always reads the newspaper in the morning as he eats breakfast Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance scan peruse review skim study reread see browse decipher devour speed-read pore (over) proofread understand turn over comprehend grasp get perceive make out apprehend

1. to look at so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.). 2. to utter aloud or render in speech (something written, printed, etc.): to read a story to a child. 3. to have such knowledge of (a language) as to be able to understand things written in it.

Conjugation verb read X English Conjugate Toolbox: Models British vs. American English Auxiliaries, modals Irregular verbs read Infinitive to read Preterite read Past participle read Model : forecast Auxiliary : have, be Other forms: read oneself / not read Contractions Advertising Indicative Present I read you read he/she/it reads we read you read

The read operation begins at the current position of the file pointer associated with the given file. After the read operation, the file pointer points to the next unread character. If the file was opened in text mode, the read terminates when _read encounters a CTRL+Z character, which is treated as an end-of-file indicator.

Example: Asynchronous read in a WPF app. See also. The following examples show how to read text synchronously and asynchronously from a text file using .NET for desktop apps. In both examples, when you create the instance of the StreamReader class, you provide the relative or absolute path to the file.