READING

reading, meter reading

(noun) the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments; “he has a job meter reading for the gas company”

reading

(noun) the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message; “his main reading was detective stories”; “suggestions for further reading”

reading, meter reading, indication

(noun) a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument; “he could not believe the meter reading”; “the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm”

interpretation, reading, version

(noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something

reading, reading material

(noun) written material intended to be read; “the teacher assigned new readings”; “he bought some reading material at the airport”

reading

(noun) a particular interpretation or performance; “on that reading it was an insult”; “he was famous for his reading of Mozart”

recitation, recital, reading

(noun) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; “the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems”

Reading

(noun) a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Proper noun

Reading

A surname.

A town in Berkshire, England.

A city in Kansas

A town in Massachusetts

A city in Michigan

An unincorporated community in Minnesota

A town in New York

A city in Ohio

A city, the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania.

A town in Vermont

Anagrams

• Dearing, dearing, deraign, gradine, grained, inraged

Etymology

Verb

reading

present participle of read

Noun

reading (countable and uncountable, plural readings)

The process of interpreting written language.

The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.

A value indicated by a measuring device.

An event at which written material is read aloud.

An interpretation.

Something to read; reading material.

The extent of what one has read.

(legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.

a piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience: readings from the Bible

Anagrams

• Dearing, dearing, deraign, gradine, grained, inraged

Source: Wiktionary

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Read"ing, n.

1. The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.

2. Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

3. A lecture or prelection; public recital. The Jews had their weekly readings of the law. Hooker.

4. The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.

5. Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering. [Cant]

6. An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer. Reading of a bill (Legislation), its normal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.

Read"ing, a.

1. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

2. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community. Reading book, a book for teaching reading; a reader.

– Reading desk, a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used while reading the service in a church.

– Reading glass, a large lens with more or less magnifying power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc.

– Reading man, one who reads much; hence, in the English universities, a close, industrious student.

– Reading room, a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort.

READ

Read, n.

Definition: Rennet. See 3d Reed. [Prov. Eng.]

Read, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Read; p. pr. & vb. n. Reading.] Etym: [OE. reden, ræden, AS. rædan to read, advice, counsel, fr. ræd advise, counsel, rædan (imperf. reord) to advice, counsel, guess; akin to D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. raedha, Goth. redan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. radh to succeed. sq. root116. Cf. Riddle.]

1. To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] See Rede. Therefore, I read thee, get to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine. Tyndale.

2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.

3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.] But read how art thou named, and of what kin. Spenser.

4. To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book. Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille. Chaucer. Well could he rede a lesson or a story. Chaucer.

5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. Who is't can read a woman Shak.

6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. Spenser. Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. Shak.

7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law. To read one's self in, to read about the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.

Read, v. t.

1. To give advice or counsel. [Obs.]

2. To tell; to declare. [Obs.] Spenser.

3. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document. So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. Neh. viii. 8.

4. To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.

5. To learn by reading. I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence. Swift.

6. To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.

7. To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly. To read between the lines, to infer something different from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning as distinguished from the apparent meaning.

Read, n. Etym: [AS. ræd counsel, fr. rædan to counsel. See Read, v. t.]

1. Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. [Obs.]

2. Etym: [Read, v.]

Definition: Reading. [Colloq.] Hume. One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read. Furnivall.

Read,

Definition: imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.

Read, a.

Definition: Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. A poet . . . well read in Longinus. Addison.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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