read-v; 7 Senses

Sense Number 1: look at and grasp the meaning of written materials

Commentary:
NOTE: Written material: words (language), symbols, graphic representation.
NOTE: Compare this to grouping 3. Unlike grouping 3, no attribution of a certain meaning or interpretation necessary in grouping 1.

Examples:
I don't have time to read novels.
Have you read Tom Clansy?
Can you read Chinese?
Teach me to read Braille.
He has a very bad sense of direction and can't read maps.
Where you see "male" read "female."

Mappings:
FrameNet: Reading
PropBank: read.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 11

Sense Number 2: contain or have a specific wording or information

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1 READ
NOTE: Compare this to grouping 1. Unlike grouping 1, this grouping requires a subjective interpretation.

Examples:
We just passed a sign that reads DANGER.
The law reads as follows.
Let us see how this passage reads in all three canonical Greek.
The thermometer read forty degrees in the shade.
Recite the poem exactly as it reads.
As the law reads, defendant is guilty.
How does you new watch read?

Mappings:
PropBank: read.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 8

Sense Number 3: attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to

Examples:
She read the sky and predicted rain.
I can't read his strange behavior.
I can read your mind like an open book.
She's so hard to read.
I read this address as satire.
Read this novel as a parable.
I read her words differently than you did.
I can read abandonment in a broken door or shattered window.
The tracker read the trail for signs of game.
Read between the lines to discover the truth.

Mappings:
PropBank: read.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5, 6

Sense Number 4: utter or render out loud a written material, perhaps as an audition.

Examples:
The King will read the proclamation at noon.
The teacher is reading the poem to the students.
We read to the children every night.
He read for the part.

Mappings:
PropBank: read.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 9

Sense Number 5: obtain data from a medium

Examples:
(Computer Science)
Can your program read this file?
The computer can't read this disk.
Nano-wires have been used to read DNA efficiently.
Read and translate the codons on m-RNA into the appropriate amino acid.

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 6: study or get knowledge

Commentary:
NOTE: British use.

Examples:
She is reading for the Bar.
They are both reading history at Cambridge.
I read that the interest rates would continue to rise.
We read about earthquakes in school today.

Mappings:
FrameNet: Hear
PropBank: read.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7

Sense Number 7: receive audio (as in over radio)

Commentary:
NOTE: Over communication medium (eg. radio).

Examples:
Do you read me?
I read you loud and clear.

Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 10