{
  "id": "read.information",
  "term": "read",
  "sense": "information",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "read",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when entities.object sees and makes information",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "see.visual",
      "information.knowledge",
      "entities.object"
    ],
    "interaction": "seeing and making information together creates interpretation of visual signs",
    "novel_properties": [
      "semantic interpretation",
      "knowledge from symbols"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope captures light from distant galaxies, converting photons into digital data streams.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "An OCR scanner at a postal sorting facility converts handwritten addresses into machine-readable text.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A librarian at the Bodleian deciphers faded 17th-century ink markings to catalog a newly acquired manuscript.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "library.information"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "read",
    "reading",
    "reads"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information"
}