CAD (money) and read(4) (iou)

CAD (money)

Definition: [crh] The ISO 4217 currency code for Canada Dollar.

read verb. . See also REDE verb1.

I. verb trans.
a. Believe, think, suppose. OE-M18.
b. Guess, make out, what, who, etc. Also foll. by direct obj. OE-L16.
verb trans.
a. Interpret (a dream); solve (a riddle); declare or expound (the meaning of a dream or the solution of a riddle) to someone. OE.
b. Foresee or predict (a person's destiny). poet. rare. L16.
verb trans. Count, estimate. rare. ME-L18.
verb trans. See, discern, distinguish. ME.
II.
verb trans. Inspect and silently interpret or say aloud (letters, words, sentences, etc.) by passing the eyes or fingers over written, printed, engraved, or embossed characters; render (written or printed matter) in speech, esp. aloud or to another person (also with pers. indirect obj.), take in the sense of (a book or magazine), or habitually peruse (an author's writings, a newspaper, etc.) by inspecting and interpreting letters, words, sentences, etc. OE.
A. Carnegie Leading editorials were read..to the people. R. Kipling I don't read Scott. S. Bellow We had read the same..books. K. Amis She started reading him a story.
b. Inspect and interpret the written or printed form of (a specified language); understand (a specified language) sufficiently to do this; interpret the symbols of (musical notation), sight-read. M16.
Times Literary Supplement Students..who do not read Russian.
c. Check the correctness of (a proof), esp. against copy, and mark any emendations to be made, proofread. M17.
d. Politics. Present (a bill or measure) before a legislative assembly (orig., in the English Parliament, by reading the bill or measure aloud). M17.
e. Scan the text of (a book, journal, etc.) for the occurrence of words and phrases, spec. as usage evidence in the compilation of a dictionary. L19.
verb intrans. Read or be able to read letters, words, sentences, etc.; read aloud or to another person; occupy oneself in reading, esp. habitually. OE.
A. S. Neill I'm going..to learn to read. Scott Fitzgerald She read aloud to him. M. Amis He read with concentration, his nose perhaps six inches from the page.
b. Read and report on the merits of manuscripts etc. offered for publication to a prospective publisher; act as a publisher's reader. M19.
a. verb trans. Find it recorded in print or Writing that. Formerly also, find (a fact) so recorded. OE.
J. W. Ebsworth We read..that the Spanish ships..were of different classes.
b. verb intrans. Find mention of something in the course of reading. ME.
J. G. Farrell The Major sat..reading of..disasters.
c. verb trans. Discern (a fact, quality, etc.) in a person's expression, eyes, etc. L16.
L. M. Montgomery She read disapproval in Mrs Rachel's expression.
a. verb trans. Tell, relate. Formerly also, describe; call, name. Long arch. ME.
b. verb intrans. Tell of something. ME-L16.
a. verb intrans. Lecture or give oral instruction (on a subject). ME-E18.
b. verb trans. Teach (a subject). (Foll. by to, indirect obj.) ME-L19.
verb trans.
a. Interpret or understand the significance of, spec. for purposes of divination. L16.
W. A. Wallace A man..that cannot read his own watch? H. Wilson Reading the electoral portents. D. Profumo Incapable of reading a simple map. Daily Telegraph She was..reading Tarot cards.
b. Make out the character, Nature, or intention of (a person) from observation of his or her expression, bodily movement, etc.; understand the feelings behind (a person's expression). E17.
c. Interpret in a particular way; give a particular meaning to. E17.
T. Hardy She read his thoughts. A. Price Burton read the stricken expression on his face.
d. (Of an editor) give as the word or words probably used or intended by an author at a particular place in a text; (of a text) have at a particular place; (of a reader) accept as a correct or substituted word or passage. M17.
G. Battiscombe The poem can be read at many levels. F. Madden For Lovaine some copies of Wace read Alemaigne. Listener The cultures of 'Indonesia' (read southeast Asia).
verb intrans. Be readable; esp. convey meaning or affect the reader in a specified way when read; sound like when read. M17.
Anthony Smith This incident reads like some account of the Black Death. N. Rankin Stevenson reads well in French.
verb trans. Bring to or into a specified condition by reading. L17.
Temple Bar The soothing voice..lullingly reading him to sleep.
verb trans. Interpret (a design) in terms of the setting needed to reproduce it on a loom. M19.
verb trans. Introduce, esp. wrongly, as an additional element; regard as present or implied. Foll. by into what is being read or considered. L19.
Times To read into the results of..by-elections..sinister or cheering evidence.
verb trans. & intrans. (with for). Study (an academic subject), esp. in preparation for a degree in it; study for (a degree). L19.
Times Students reading social science.
verb trans. Of a measuring instrument: show as the measurement of the quantity measured; indicate. L19.
G. Greene I looked at my watchit read five minutes to eleven.
verb trans. Of a passage or text: contain or consist of (specified words); say. L19.
M. Kenyon Arsenal Poofters OK, read the solitary graffito.
verb trans. & intrans. Receive and understand the words of (a person) by Radio or telephone; detect by sonar; fig. understand the meaning of (a speaker). M20.
D. Francis Port Ellen tower this is Golf Alpha Romeo.., do you read? R. J. Serling Do you read me?
verb intrans. Of an actor or actress: audition or rehearse for a part. M20.
E. Berckman Ring your agent, and say you'll read for the part.
verb trans. Computing. Copy, extract, (data); transfer (data) into or out of an electronic device. M20.
Computer Journal Reading a file into the system.
verb trans. Of a device: respond in a pre-set way to (light, an optical stimulus). M20.
Camera Weekly The camera reads light from the frame.
Phrases: read a person a lesson: see LESSON noun 6. read a person's mind: see MIND noun1. read between the lines: see LINE noun2. read one's shirt slang search one's clothes for lice. read someone like a book: see BOOK noun. read the Riot Act: see RIOT noun. take as read treat a statement, a subject, etc. as if it has been agreed, without having a discussion about it; take for granted. you wouldn't read about it! Austral. & NZ colloq.: expr. incredulity and disgust or ruefulness.
With adverbs in specialized senses: read in (a) verb phr. trans. take as intended by or deducible from a passage; (b) verb phr. intrans. & refl. (Hist.) take up office as an incumbent in the Church of England by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent; (c) verb phr. trans. formally admit to membership; spec. conscript; (d) verb phr. trans. (Computing) transfer (data) into a computer etc. read off note (a measurement) from the indication of a graduated instrument. read out (a) read aloud; (b) (foll. by of) expel from (a party, church, etc.); (c) Computing extract (data); transfer from internal storage. read over look at and read various parts of (a letter, book, etc.). read through read from beginning to end. read up study (a subject) intensively and systematically; familiarize oneself with (a subject) by reading.
Comb.: read-around ratio Computing the number of times that a particular bit in an electrostatic store can be read without degrading bits stored nearby; read-in Computing the input of data to a computer or storage device; read-mostly adjective (Computing) designating a memory whose contents can be changed, though not by program instructions, but which is designed on the basis that such changes will be very infrequent; read-only adjective (Computing) designating a memory whose contents cannot be changed by program instructions but which can usually be read at high speed; read-through (a) an act of reading through; Theatrical an initial rehearsal at which actors read their parts from scripts; (b) Biochemistry the continued transcription of genetic material by RNA polymerase that has overrun a termination sequence. read-write adjective (Computing) capable of or allowing both the reading of the existing data and its alteration and supplementation.

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