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Definition of Reading

1. Noun. The cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message. "Suggestions for further reading"

2. Noun. A particular interpretation or performance. "He was famous for his reading of Mozart"

3. Noun. A datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument. "The barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm"

4. Noun. Written material intended to be read. "He bought some reading material at the airport"

5. Noun. A mental representation of the meaning or significance of something.

6. Noun. A city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England.

7. Noun. A public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance. "The program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems"

8. Noun. The act of measuring with meters or similar instruments. "He has a job meter reading for the gas company"

Definition of Reading

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

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

Definition of Reading

1. Proper noun. A town in Berkshire, England. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of read) ¹

3. Noun. The process of interpreting written language. ¹

4. Noun. The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device. ¹

5. Noun. A value indicated by a measuring device. ¹

6. Noun. A meeting where written material is read aloud. ¹

7. Noun. An interpretation. ¹

8. Adjective. Made or used for reading. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reading

1. material that is read [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reading

readers readership readerships readest readeth readibility readie readied readier readies

readiest readily readin' readiness readinesses reading (current term) reading-frameshift mutation reading clinic reading copy reading desk

reading frame reading frames reading lamp reading material reading out reading program reading room reading rooms reading stone

Literary usage of Reading

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori (1912)
"I do not consider as reading the test which the child makes when he verifies the ... What I understand by reading is the interpretation of an idea from the ..."

2. Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1897)
"A true classic improves on each reading, and one may go over it again and again, ... According as there is time for a cursory reading only, or for a more ..."

3. The First Lines of English Grammar: Being a Brief Abstract of the Author's by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1879)
"We had been reading, 2. Thou hadst been reading, 2. You had been reading, 0. He had been reading; 3. They had been reading. First-future Tense. Singular. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The temperature of melting ice is adopted, by universal consent, as the standard to which the "apparent" reading is to be reduced. ..."

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