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Reading   /rˈɛdɪŋ/  /rˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Reading

noun
1.
The cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message.  "Suggestions for further reading"
2.
A particular interpretation or performance.  "He was famous for his reading of Mozart"
3.
A datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument.  Synonyms: indication, meter reading.  "The barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm"
4.
Written material intended to be read.  Synonym: reading material.  "He bought some reading material at the airport"
5.
A mental representation of the meaning or significance of something.  Synonyms: interpretation, version.
6.
A city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England.
7.
A public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance.  Synonyms: recital, recitation.
8.
The act of measuring with meters or similar instruments.  Synonym: meter reading.


Read

verb
(past & past part. read; pres. part. reading)
1.
Interpret something that is written or printed.  "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"
2.
Have or contain a certain wording or form.  Synonym: say.  "What does the law say?"
3.
Look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed.
4.
Obtain data from magnetic tapes.  Synonym: scan.
5.
Interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior.  "I can't read his strange behavior" , "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"
6.
Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression.  Synonym: take.  "How should I take this message?" , "You can't take credit for this!"
7.
Be a student of a certain subject.  Synonyms: learn, study, take.
8.
Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments.  Synonyms: record, register, show.  "The gauge read 'empty'"
9.
Audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role.
10.
To hear and understand.
11.
Make sense of a language.  Synonyms: interpret, translate, understand.  "Can you read Greek?"



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"Reading" Quotes from Famous Books



... their sitting-room reading the Field. He started up as Gifford entered, and flung away the paper. "My dear Hugh, I've been ...
— The Hunt Ball Mystery • Magnay, William
... has been kind to me. Have your researches into English literature ever chanced to lead you into reading Horace Walpole, I wonder? That polite trifler is fond of a word which he coined himself—'Serendipity.' It derives from the name of a certain happy Indian Prince Serendip, whom he unearthed (or invented) in some obscure Oriental story; a ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen
... sacrifices and baulked enjoyments. If her carriage were at the door, she was never certain that she would not have to send it away; if she had asked some friends to her house, the chances were she would have to put them off; if she were reading a novel, Lord Marney asked her to copy a letter; if she were going to the opera, she found that Lord Marney had got seats for her and some friend in the House of Lords, and seemed expecting the strongest expressions of delight ...
— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli
... Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys, Son of the love of Tereus and Procne, slain For the guilty passion of Tereus for Philomela, The flesh of him served to Tereus by Procne, And the wrath of Tereus, the murderess pursuing Till the ...
— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... that night in the kitchen, and Maggie was reading a ghost story from the evening paper. There was a fine sifting of flour over the table, and it gave me my idea. When I went up to bed that night, I left a powdering of flour here and there on the lower floor, at the door into the library, a patch by ...
— The Confession • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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