Read

Read or READ may refer to:

Computing

 * Read (computer), to retrieve data from a storage device
 * Read (system call), a low-level IO function on a file descriptor in a computer
 * Read (Unix), a command in Unix operating systems

Places

 * Read, Lancashire, England, a village
 * Read, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
 * Read Township, Clayton County, Iowa, United States
 * Read Township, Butler County, Nebraska, United States
 * Read Mountains, Coats Land, Antarctica
 * Mount Read, a mountain in Tasmania, Australia
 * Read Island, British Columbia, Canada

People

 * Read (surname), including a list of people with this surname
 * Read Montague (born 1960) American neuroscientist and popular science author
 * Read Viemeister (1922–1993), American industrial designer
 * Miss Read (1913–2012), pen name of British author Dora Jessie Saint

READ

 * Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1999
 * READ Global, a non-profit organization operating in rural South Asia
 * READ International, 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, an organization promoting literacy using therapy dogs

Other uses

 * Read (automobile), an American car manufactured from 1913 to 1915
 * Read (biology), 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 Bridge, Singapore
 * Read (magazine), a children's magazine
 * Read School (disambiguation)
 * Read (theatre), to perform the dialog of a play
 * Read (transgender), a term in gender identity
 * Chicago-Read Mental Health Center in Chicago, Illinois
 * The Read, a weekly one-hour pop culture podcast
 * Arthur Read, a fictional anthropomorphic aardvark