Reading (root: read)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: read=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Reading, n. 

•  The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.  [1913 Webster]
•  Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.  [1913 Webster]
•  A lecture or prelection; public recital.  [1913 Webster]

  "The Jews had their weekly readings of the law."  [1913 Webster]
•  The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.  [1913 Webster]
•  Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.  [1913 Webster]
•  An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.  [1913 Webster]

Reading of a bill (Legislation), its formal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.

Reading, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.  [1913 Webster]
•  Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.  [1913 Webster]

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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Reading, n.
1 a the act or an instance of reading or perusing (the reading of the will). b matter to be read (have plenty of reading with me). c the specified quality of this (it made exciting reading).
2 (in comb.) used for reading (reading-lamp; reading-room).
3 literary knowledge (a person of wide reading).
4 an entertainment at which a play, poems, etc., are read (poetry reading).
5 a figure etc. shown by a meter or other recording instrument.
6 an interpretation or view taken (what is your reading of the facts?).
7 an interpretation made (of drama, music, etc.).
8 each of the successive occasions on which a bill must be presented to a legislature for acceptance (see also first reading, second reading, third reading).
9 the version of a text, or the particular wording, conjectured or given by an editor etc.

Idiom

reading age reading ability expressed as the age for which the same ability is calculated as average (has a reading age of eight).

Etymology

OE (as READ)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Reading

n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

We know by one's reading
His learning and breeding;
By what draws his laughter
We know his Hereafter.
Read nothing, laugh never --
The Sphinx was less clever!
Jupiter Muke

THESAURUS

Reading

CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, application, barometer, beam, beat signal, bibliolatry, bibliomania, blips, bluestockingism, boning, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, bounces, brainwork, canon, chalk talk, check, classical scholarship, classicism, composite reading, conflation, conning, construction, contemplation, cram, cramming, criterion, critical edition, culture, debate, declamation, definition, degree, description, diagnosis, diatribe, diplomatic text, display, donnishness, double-dot display, drill, echo, echo signal, edited text, edition, engrossment, eruditeness, erudition, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, extensive study, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, gauge, graduated scale, grind, grinding, harangue, headwork, hortatory address, humanism, humanistic scholarship, inaugural, inaugural address, inspection, intellectualism, intellectuality, interpretation, invective, jeremiad, learnedness, lection, letters, literacy, local oscillator signal, lucubration, meaning, measure, mental labor, model, norm, normalized text, oration, output signal, parameter, pattern, pedantism, pedantry, pep talk, peroration, perusal, philippic, picture, pips, pitch, practice, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, quantity, radar signal, readout, recital, recitation, reflection, rendering, rendition, restudy, restudying, return, return signal, review, rule, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, scale, scholarly edition, scholarship, screed, set speech, signal, signal display, speech, speechification, speeching, spot, standard, study, studying, subject, swotting, talk, talkathon, target image, test, text, tirade, touchstone, trace, transmitter signal, type, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, value, variant, version, video signal, way of seeing, wide reading, yardstick

ROGET THESAURUS

Reading

Speciality

N speciality, specialite, individuality, individuity, particularity, peculiarity, idiocrasy, personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy, specificness, singularity, reading, version, lection, state, trait, distinctive feature, technicality, differentia, particulars, details, items, counts, minutiae, I, self, I myself, myself, himself, herself, itself, special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive, singular, idiomatic, idiotypical, typical, this, that, yon, yonder, specially, especially, particularly, in particular, in propria persona, ad hominem, for my part, each, apiece, one by one, one at a time, severally, respectively, each to each, seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in mind-numbing detail, bit by bit, pro hac vice, pro re nata, namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia, e, g, i, e, videlicet, viz, to wit, le style est l'homme meme.

Knowledge

N knowledge, cognizance, cognition, cognoscence, acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity, comprehension, apprehension, recognition, appreciation, intuition, conscience, consciousness, perception, precognition, acroamatics, light, enlightenment, glimpse, inkling, glimmer, glimmering, dawn, scent, suspicion, impression, discovery, system of knowledge, body of knowledge, science, philosophy, pansophy, acroama, theory, aetiology, etiology, circle of the sciences, pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine, cyclopedia, encyclopedia, school, tree of knowledge, republic of letters, erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters, literature, book madness, book learning, bookishness, bibliomania, bibliolatry, information, general information, store of knowledge, education, culture, menticulture, attainments, acquirements, acquisitions, accomplishments, proficiency, practical knowledge, liberal education, dilettantism, rudiments, deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning, omniscience, pantology, march of intellect, progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning, schoolmaster abroad, scholar, knowing, cognitive, acroamatic, aware of, cognizant of, conscious of, acquainted with, made acquainted with, privy to, no stranger to, au fait with, au courant, in the secret, up to, alive to, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, let into, apprized of, informed of, undeceived, proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in, conversant with, familiar with, erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated, well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated, enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book- learned, accomplished, omniscient, self-taught, known, ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted, proverbial, familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy, hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace, cognoscible, cognizable, to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge, one's eyes being opened, ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner, to know all is to pardon all, empta dolore docet experientia, gnothi seauton, half our knowledge we must snatch not take, Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher, years teach more than books, knowledge comes but wisdom lingers, knowledge is power, les affaires font les hommes, nec scire fas est omnia, the amassed thought and experience of innumerable, was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss.

Interpretation

N interpretation, definition, explanation, explication, solution, answer, rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering, rendition, redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret, clew, clavis, crib, pony, trot, exegesis, expounding, exposition, hermeneutics, comment, commentary, inference, illustration, exemplification, gloss, annotation, scholium, note, elucidation, dilucidation, eclaircissement, mot d'enigme, symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics, metoposcopy, physiognomy, paleography, oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance, light, reading, lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning, synonym, paraphrase, metaphrase, convertible terms, apposition, dictionary, polyglot, explanatory, expository, explicative, explicatory, exegetical, construable, polyglot, literal, paraphrastic, metaphrastic, consignificative, synonymous, equivalent, in explanation, that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words, literally, strictly speaking, in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English, more simply.

Learning

N learning, acquisition of knowledge &c, acquisition of skill, acquirement, attainment, edification, scholarship, erudition, acquired knowledge, lore, wide information, self-instruction, study, reading, perusal, inquiry, apprenticeship, prenticeship, pupilage, pupilarity, tutelage, novitiate, matriculation, docility, aptitude, studious, scholastic, scholarly, teachable, docile, apt &c, industrious, at one's books, in statu pupillari, a lumber-house of books in every head, ancora imparo!, hold high converse with the mighty dead, lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.