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Reading Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of Letter (alphabet), letters, symbols, etc., especially by Visual perception, sight or Somatosensory system, touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process invo ...

, human cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning * Read (automobile), an American car manufactured from 1913 to 1915 *

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 fragmentation of the genome into millions of molecules, wh ...

, an inferred sequence of base pairs of a DNA fragment * Read codes, a standard clinical terminology system used in General Practice in the United Kingdom * Read (computer), to retrieve data from a storage device * ''Read'' (magazine), a children's magazine * Read (surname), people with this surname *

read (system call) In modern POSIX compliant operating systems, a program that needs to access data from a file stored in a file system uses the read system call. The file is identified by a file descriptor that is normally obtained from a previous call to open. Thi ...

, a low level IO function on a file descriptor in a computer * Read Township, Clayton County, Iowa, in the United States *

Read (theatre) Oral Interpretation is a dramatic art, also commonly called "interpretive reading" and "dramatic reading", though these terms are more conservative and restrictive. In certain applications, oral interpretation is also a theater art – as in rea ...

, to perform the dialog of a play * Read Township, Butler County, Nebraska, in the United States *

Read (Unix) read is a command found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It reads a line of input from standard input or a file passed as an argument to its -u flag, and assigns it to a variable. In Unix shells, like Bash Bash or BASH may ...

, a command in Unix operating systems *

Read Viemeister Read Viemeister (1922 – 10 September 1993) was an American industrial designer. He was the Creative Director for the Lippincott (brand consultancy), Lippincott team working on the Tucker 48, Tucker car in 1947, and the founder of Vie Design Studio ...

(1922–1993), American industrial designer *

Read (transgender) In the context of gender, passing is when someone is perceived as a gender or sex other than the sex they were assigned at birth. Historically, this was common among women who served in occupations where women were prohibited, such as in comba ...

, a term in gender identity *

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. ...

, a town in the UK country of England *

Read, West Virginia Read is an unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers cl ...

, an unincorporated community in the United States * Chicago-Read Mental Health Center in Chicago, Illinois * ''

The Read ''The Read'' is a weekly pop culture podcast. One of several podcasts affiliated with the Loud Speakers Network, ''The Read'' is hosted by American comedians Kid Fury and Crissle West and based in New York City. History Prior to starting ''The ...

'', a weekly one-hour pop culture podcast

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Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation Alfred C. Sikes (born December 16, 1939) is a Republican, former U.S. administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, who served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from August 8, 1989, to J ...

, a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1999 * Rural Educational and Development Foundation, not-for-profit educational network in rural Pakistan *

READ Global READ (Rural Education and Development) Global is a non-profit organization operating in rural South Asia and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded on the belief that improved access to educational resources creates lasting social ch ...

, a non-profit organization operating in rural South Asia *

READ International READ Tanzania is a charity (NGO), formerly known as READ International that aims to improve access to education in East Africa by renovating school libraries and providing educational materials. READ began as a United Kingdom-based charity but ha ...

, a charity that aims to improve access to education in East Africa * Rural Educational and Development Foundation, a not-for-profit educational network in rural Pakistan *

Reading Education Assistance Dogs A therapy dog is a dog that is trained to provide affection, comfort and support to people, often in settings such as hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, schools, libraries, hospices, or disaster areas. In contrast to assistance dogs, w ...

, an organization promoting literacy using therapy dogs

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