# Read

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'''Read''' or '''READ''' may refer to:

==Computing==
* [Read (computer)](/source/Read_(computer)), to retrieve data from a storage device
* [Read (system call)](/source/Read_(system_call)), a low-level IO function on a file descriptor in a computer
* [Read (Unix)](/source/Read_(Unix)), a command in Unix operating systems

==Places==
* [Read, Lancashire](/source/Read%2C_Lancashire), England, a village
* [Read, West Virginia](/source/Read%2C_West_Virginia), United States, an unincorporated community
* [Read Township, Clayton County, Iowa](/source/Read_Township%2C_Clayton_County%2C_Iowa), United States
* [Read Township, Butler County, Nebraska](/source/Read_Township%2C_Butler_County%2C_Nebraska), United States
* [Read Mountains](/source/Read_Mountains), Coats Land, Antarctica
* [Mount Read](/source/Mount_Read), a mountain in Tasmania, Australia
* [Read Island](/source/Read_Island), British Columbia, Canada

==People==
* [Read (surname)](/source/Read_(surname)), including a list of people with this surname
* [Read Montague](/source/Read_Montague) (born 1960) American neuroscientist and popular science author
* [Read Viemeister](/source/Read_Viemeister) (1922–1993), American industrial designer
* [Miss Read](/source/Miss_Read) (1913–2012), pen name of British author Dora Jessie Saint

== READ ==
* [Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation](/source/Reading_Excellence_and_Discovery_Foundation), a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1999
* [READ Global](/source/READ_Global), a non-profit organization operating in rural South Asia
* [READ International](/source/READ_International), a charity that aims to improve access to education in East Africa
* [Rural Educational and Development Foundation](/source/Rural_Educational_and_Development_Foundation), a not-for-profit educational network in rural Pakistan
* [Reading Education Assistance Dogs](/source/Reading_Education_Assistance_Dogs), an organization promoting literacy using therapy dogs

==Other uses==
* [Read (automobile)](/source/Read_(automobile)), an American car manufactured from 1913 to 1915
* [Read (biology)](/source/Read_(biology)), an inferred sequence of base pairs of a DNA fragment
* [Read codes](/source/Read_codes), a standard clinical terminology system used in General Practice in the United Kingdom
* [Read Bridge](/source/Read_Bridge), Singapore
* [''Read'' (magazine)](/source/Read_(magazine)), a children's magazine
* [Read School (disambiguation)](/source/Read_School_(disambiguation))
* [Read (theatre)](/source/Read_(theatre)), to perform the dialog of a play
* [Read (transgender)](/source/Read_(transgender)), a term in gender identity
* [Chicago-Read Mental Health Center](/source/Chicago-Read_Mental_Health_Center) in Chicago, Illinois
* ''[The Read](/source/The_Read)'', a weekly one-hour pop culture podcast
* [Arthur Read](/source/Arthur_Read), a fictional anthropomorphic aardvark

== See also ==
* [Read's Island](/source/Read's_Island), Humber Estuary, England
* [Reads (disambiguation)](/source/Reads_(disambiguation))
* [Reading (disambiguation)](/source/Reading_(disambiguation))
* [Reed (disambiguation)](/source/Reed_(disambiguation))
* [Reid (disambiguation)](/source/Reid_(disambiguation))
* [Redd (disambiguation)](/source/Redd_(disambiguation))
* [Red (disambiguation)](/source/Red_(disambiguation))
* [Rede (disambiguation)](/source/Rede_(disambiguation))
* [Rhead](/source/Rhead)
* [Reade (disambiguation)](/source/Reade_(disambiguation))
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Category:Masculine given names

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