read out
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
read out (third-person singular simple present reads out, present participle reading out, simple past and past participle read out)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To read something and say the words to inform other people.
- Coordinate term: read off
- The teacher read out the names of the students who had passed the exam.
- He read the names out to the class.
- (transitive, idiomatic, US) (of a device) To read some data and inform the person using the device; (of the user) to read some data from the device to inform oneself.
- Coordinate term: read off
- The movement detector is reading out the data now.
- (transitive, legal) To interpret a part of a law so that it is not struck down but is rendered of no effect or applicability.
- Coordinate term: count out
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