verb

• (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
  "Have you read this book?"
• (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
  "Arabic reads right to left."
• (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
  "At the moment I'm reading Milton."
• (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
  "He read us a passage from his new book."

noun

• (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
  "His thrillers are always a gripping read."
• (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
  "[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].""
• (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.