(v. t.) To take out the head of; as, to unhead a cask.
(v. t.) To decapitate; to behead.
Example Sentences:
Unread
Definition:
(a.) Not read or perused; as, an unread book.
(a.) Not versed in literature; illiterate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their activities, for the most part undocumented, have been forgotten or taken for granted, and notes, if written, remain unread.
(2) A toe-curling pause followed and Achebe's family looked on with unreadable expressions.
(3) The proportion of unreadable ultrasound results increased linearly with increase in skin thickness and the variance of ultrasound readings increased as inflammatory skin thickness increased; by contrast caliper variance remained constant.
(4) Lenin used to get cross with young Bolsheviks visiting him in exile, during the inter-revolutionary years between 1905 and 1917, when they teased him about Chernyshevsky’s book and told him it was unreadable.
(5) The compound that oversaw industry during the boom years now has a fading, almost unreadable sign and a deathly hush.
(6) In seven, very strong non-specific fluorescence made the result unreadable.
(7) Intelligence such as the Phoenix memo – which warned in July 2001 that terrorist suspects had been in flight schools and urgently requested further investigation – went unread.
(8) The most unreadable books I have read recently were Stephenie Meyer 's Twilight series.
(9) In this photograph, however, his face is an unreadable mask.
(10) The lawyer said Baluchi turned the book over to him, unread.
(11) Similarly, drawing on Henley Centre research, he says every home has a filter point — whether it is the kitchen table, or the bowl containing the keys by the front door, at which unsolicted material get stopped, and as such literature mounts in an election it remains increasingly unread.
(12) The clinical severity of those with unreadable roentgenograms was significantly greater.
(13) It is clear that we need to rethink law, entitlements and institutions around how we regulate information, without consenting to untold pages of unread, non-negotiable, we’ll-take-everything-but-your-firstborn-child terms and conditions.
(14) The only listing for a piece of paper reads: “1-white piece of paper with BREEZO & tel#329-4789 and unreadable printing on the obverse side.” When contacted by the Guardian, Boyd’s cousin Joe Kelly recalled the slip of paper with the FedEx stamp.
(15) And could we, maybe, identify some of those earlier, unreadable Bookers, to which Rimington and Mullin intend to be the corrective?
(16) A shelf with unread books Toby: Isn’t the future of libraries dependent on not having gatekeepers who are scary, on libraries not looking ancient, and not being about distant, old knowledge?
(17) Panicking that she may be discharged before engineering their reunion, she forcibly ruptures her wound to prolong her stay - a feat of self-harm almost unreadable for its violence, and ultimate futility.
(18) "A map that tries to answer every question for every person is effectively unreadable."
(19) However approximately 5% of the sera were positive by ELISA and the EIF test while the CF test result was either negative or unreadable because of serum anticomplementary activity.
(20) It is anyway increasingly clear that Lord Justice Leveson is aware that all previous proposals on press reform lie unread and unimplemented on the bottom shelf – just like the Calcutt report.