unread

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GMail has a cool extension in Labs that changes the favicon to display the number of unread messages.

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Quick take

Not having been read.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of unread gathered in one view.

adjective

Not having been read.

adjective

Not having read; uneducated.

verb

(transitive) To undo the process of reading.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unread.

adjective

Not having been read.

adjective

Not having read; uneducated.

verb

(transitive) To undo the process of reading.

verb

(computing, transitive) To flag (a previously read e-mail or similar message) as not having been read.

Example sentences

GMail has a cool extension in Labs that changes the favicon to display the number of unread messages.

Other people in your team should see them as unread until they actually go and open the diffs.

Instead of using 'unread' another option is to archive all messages and leave only in the inbox the pending ones.

Holy shit, the guy in the screencast has over 18000 unread messages in his gmail inbox!

My Kindle is constantly loaded with longer pieces that had sat in my bookmarks unread before.

Now I don't have that compulsion anymore, since there is an option to not display the unread count.

And most people seem to have a backlog of unread books in their shelves.

I'd say gmail labels are more like premade searches (with the added bonus of the unread count).

The number of unread Facebook messages I have is not printed on 30% of all the web pages I visit.

I was shocked, there were 4127 spam messages, and just 98 unread items in the inbox.

One of them couldn't get rid of a notification from TextSecure about an unread message despite there being none, and eventually they uninstalled it.

All of the previously unread ones I've now finally read are good, a couple great, ditto the ones previously read.

Quote examples

There's a Japanese word, tsundoku, which means "buying books and not reading them, letting them pile up unread".

I mostly use the "Jump to next unread message" hotkey in Slack to switch between channels.

Whether advocacy organizations "send" the emails or whether they're sent by an individual has no bearing on either the legitimacy of the message, or whether or not they will remain unread.

If A = all emails, P = number of pending and A>>P, then his method: click "unread" P times yours: click "archive" A-P times A-P >> P His method is less work.