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Definition of Readings
1. reading [n] - See also: reading
Lexicographical Neighbors of Readings
Literary usage of Readings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Der Infantilismus, die Asthenie und deren Beziehungen zum Nervensystem: A by Paul Mathes, E. H. (Edward Holyoke) Farrington, F. W. (Fritz Wilhelm) Woll (1911)
"The bottles must be kept warm until the readings are made, so that the column of
fat will have a sharply defined upper and lower meniscus. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Four choice readings from Edwin Arnold's 'Pearls of the Faith,* —'After Death,*
2 835; 'Solomon and the Ant,* 837; 'God Is Enough* and 'When the Trumpet ..."
3. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"Motive for these readings. without a reminder of the grave warnings of April.
... This had decided him to take a London house for the twelve last readings ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1907)
"It will be observed that the readings, except in the first case, ... In proportion
as the readings are massed, the strength of the associations for the time ..."
5. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John by Elisha Kent Kane (1856)
"Tables of hourly readings of the changes of the magnetic declination at ...
The scale readings commenced thirty minutes before and ended twenty-four minutes ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"KEW readings IN SHAKESPEARE. NO. П. IF the glory of Shakespeare is a theme for
national congratulation, the purity of his text ought to be an object of ..."
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