read out

To say written words aloud so other people can hear them.

• Please read out the answer.
• The teacher read our names out.
• She is reading out the instructions to everyone.

How to use it: read something out (Please read the message out.); read out something to someone (He read out the letter to his mother.)

Similar words: read aloud

Common phrases: read out names, read out something

To get or show information stored or measured by a device.

• The device reads out the temperature.
• We read out the stored data yesterday.
• Can this program read out values from the sensor?

How to use it: read something out (The engineer read the stored values out.); read out something from something (We read out the data from the sensor.)

Similar words: retrieve, output

Common phrases: read out data, read out values

To explain a law in a way that makes some of its words have no effect.

• The judge read out the words that limited access to compensation.
• Courts sometimes read out provisions that conflict with basic rights.
• The clause remained in print, but its effect had been read out.

How to use it: read something out of something (The court read the disputed words out of the statute.)

Common phrases: read out words, read out provisions