Display
Display verb - To present so as to invite notice or attention.
To read and display are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To read" with "Display", this terms are similar.
Nearby Words: displayed, displaying
To read
Both terms in one sentence
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Although he doesn't display any stereotypically "Jewish" traits, it's easy to read between the lines when he mentions that his family immigrated to the U.S.
Source: Film / The Monuments Men -
The eponymous character from the TV series Jake 2.0, although, while he can remotely hack into a computer to display certain information, he still needs to read it normally.
Source: Technopath - In both shows, this is usually justified by the display being in an alien language (Ancient, Goa'uld, Wraith, Asgard) that the good guys have conveniently learned to read.
Source: Obfuscated Interface
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