Read or READ may refer to:
Computing
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Read (computer)
Reading is an action performed by computers, to acquire data from a source and place it into their volatile memory for Process (computing), processing. Computers may read information from a variety of sources, such as magnetic storage, the Inter ...
, to retrieve data from a storage device
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Read (system call), a low-level IO function on a file descriptor in a computer
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Read (Unix), a command in Unix operating systems
Places
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Read, Lancashire
Read is a village in Lancashire 5 miles west northwest of Burnley and 2 miles east of Whalley. It is on the A671 which is the main road between Burnley and Clitheroe. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 1,419. ...
, England, a village
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Read, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
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Read Township, Clayton County, Iowa, United States
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Read Township, Butler County, Nebraska
Read Township is one of seventeen townships in Butler County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 179 at the 2020 census. A 2021 estimate placed the township's population at 180.
The Village of Surprise lies within the Township close ...
, United States
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Read Mountains, Coats Land, Antarctica
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Mount Read, a mountain in Tasmania, Australia
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Read Island, British Columbia, Canada
People
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Read (surname)
Read is a surname of English origins.
Derivation
The name is most likely to derive from ''rēad,'' the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) term for the colour red. As a name it is believed to have originally been descriptive of person's complexion or hair ...
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Read Montague (born 1960) American neuroscientist and popular science author
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Read Viemeister (1922–1993), American industrial designer
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Miss Read (1913–2012), pen name of British author Dora Jessie Saint
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Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1999
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READ Global, a non-profit organization operating in rural South Asia
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READ International, a charity that aims to improve access to education in East Africa
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Rural Educational and Development Foundation, a not-for-profit educational network in rural Pakistan
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Reading Education Assistance Dogs, an organization promoting literacy using therapy dogs
Other uses
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Read (automobile)
The Read car was manufactured by the Read Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan from 1913 to 1914.
History
Ray J. Read, Joseph Beatty and Roy Herald established the Read Motor Company for the manufacture of a four-cylinder 20- hp touring car on a ...
, an American car manufactured from 1913 to 1915
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Read (biology) In DNA sequencing, a read is an inferred sequence of base pairs (or base pair probabilities) corresponding to all or part of a single DNA fragment. A typical sequencing experiment involves DNA fragmentation, fragmentation of the genome into millions ...
, an inferred sequence of base pairs of a DNA fragment
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Read codes, a standard clinical terminology system used in General Practice in the United Kingdom
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Read Bridge, Singapore
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''Read'' (magazine), a children's magazine
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Read School (disambiguation)
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Read (theatre), to perform the dialog of a play
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Read (transgender), a term in gender identity
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Chicago-Read Mental Health Center in Chicago, Illinois
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The Read'', a weekly one-hour pop culture podcast
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Arthur Read, a fictional anthropomorphic aardvark
See also
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Read's Island, Humber Estuary, England
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Reads (disambiguation)
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Reading (disambiguation)
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Reed (disambiguation)
Reed or Reeds may refer to:
Science, technology, biology, and medicine
* Reed bird (disambiguation)
* Reed pen, writing implement in use since ancient times
* Reed (plant), one of several tall, grass-like wetland plants of the order Poales
* Re ...
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Reid (disambiguation)
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Redd (disambiguation)
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Red (disambiguation)
Red is a color.
Red or RED may also refer to:
Places
* Red Barracks, Weymouth, Dorset, England
* Red Barracks, Woolwich, London, England.
* Red Creek (Mississippi), a tributary of the Pascagoula River in the United States
* Red Creek, a tributa ...
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Rede (disambiguation)
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Rhead
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Reade (disambiguation)
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{{Disambiguation, geo, given name
English-language masculine given names