A Read

1. A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
2. (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
3. A person's interpretation or impression of something.
4. (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
5. (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string