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** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en] (adjective and noun)
- [en] (adjective and noun)
- [en] (adjective and noun)
- [en] (verb)
- [en] (verb)
*** Adjective
[-]
1. Not having been read .
2. * 1700 , [Charles Hopkins (poet)] , _The Art of Love_ , (after [Ovid] ’s _[Ars Amatoria]_ ), London: Joseph Wild, “The Muse,” p. 36, <sup> see http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A23605.0001.001 </sup>
3. *: At first, perhaps, UNREAD your Note’s return’d,
4. *: Your Person slighted, and your Passion scorn’d.
5. * [text=‘P <small> RIVATE </small> : for the hands of J. G. Utterson <small> ALONE </small> and in case of his predecease _to be destroyed UNREAD_ ,’ so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents.]
6. Not having read ; uneducated .
7. * [I]
8. * 1796 , [Elizabeth Inchbald] , _[Nature and Art]_ , Dublin: P. Wogan _et al._ , Chapter 22, p. 111, <sup> see http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004795445.0001.000 </sup>
9. *: The only child of two doating parents, she never had been taught the necessity of resignation—untutored, UNREAD , unused to reflect, but knowing how to _feel_ [...]
10. * 1890 , [Frances Willard (suffragist)] , Address before the Seventeenth Convention of the [Woman's Christian Temperance Union] at Atlanta, Georgia, in [William Jennings Bryan] (editor), _The World’s Famous Orations_ , New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906, Volume 10, p. 162, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/worldsfamousorat10brya </sup>
11. *: [...] only those UNREAD in the biography of genius imagine themselves to be original.
**** Translations
[not having been read]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Polish: [pl]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[uneducated]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[unreads]
1. [en] To undo the process of reading.
2. [en] To flag (a previously read e-mail or similar message) as not having been read.
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] An unread email or instant message .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2011 | author=Hugh D. Culver | title=Give Me a Break: The Art of Making Time Work for You | page=129
|passage=You will have fewer 'UNREADS' staring at you from your Inbox, and
will feel—and be—more productive.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2022 | author=Michelle McCraw | title=Boss Me
|passage=I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to
view Cooper's. The UNREADS were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.}}
*** Anagrams
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