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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RE'ADING, ppr.
1. Pronouncing or perusing written or printed words or characters of a book or writing.
2. Discovering by marks; understanding.
RE'ADING, n.
1. The act of reading; perusal.
2. Study of books; as a man of extensive reading.
3. A lecture or prelection.
4. Public recital.
The Jews had their weekly readings of the law.
5. In criticism, the manner of reading the manuscripts of ancient authors, where the words or letters are obscure. No small part of the business of critics is to settle the true reading, or real words used by the author; and the various readings of different critics are often perplexing.
6. A commentary or gloss on a law, text or passage.
7. In legislation, the formal recital of a bill by the proper officer, before the house which is to consider it. In Congress and in the state legislatures, a bill must usually have three several readings on different days, before it can be passed into a law.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message; "his main reading was detective stories"; "suggestions for further reading"
2: a particular interpretation or performance; "on that reading it was an insult"; "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; "he could not believe the meter reading"; "the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm" [syn: reading, meter reading, indication]
4: written material intended to be read; "the teacher assigned new readings"; "he bought some reading material at the airport" [syn: reading, reading material]
5: a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something [syn: interpretation, reading, 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; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems" [syn: recitation, recital, reading]
8: the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments; "he has a job meter reading for the gas company" [syn: reading, meter reading]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: before 12th century 1. the act of reading 2. a. material read or for reading b. extent of material read 3. a. a particular version b. data indicated by an instrument 4. a. a particular interpretation of something (as a law) b. a particular performance of something (as a musical work) 5. an indication of a certain state of affairs <a study to get some reading of shoppers' preferences>

Merriam Webster's

I. biographical name 1st Marquis of 1860-1935 Rufus Daniel Isaacs British statesman; viceroy of India (1921-26) II. geographical name 1. town E Massachusetts N of Boston population 23,708 2. city SE Pennsylvania on the Schuylkill population 81,207 3. town S England capital of Berkshire population 122,600

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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. Phrases and idioms: 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)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Read Read, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Read; p. pr. & vb. n. Reading.] [OE. reden, r[ae]den, AS. r[=ae]dan to read, advice, counsel, fr. r[=ae]d advise, counsel, r[=ae]dan (imperf. reord) to advice, counsel, guess; akin to D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. r[=a][eth]a, Goth. r[=e]dan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. r[=a]dh to succeed. [root]116. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reading 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reading 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(readings) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Reading is the activity of reading books. I have always loved reading. ...young people who find reading and writing difficult. N-UNCOUNT 2. A reading is an event at which poetry or extracts from books are read to an audience. ...a poetry reading. N-COUNT 3. Your reading of a word, text, or situation is the way in which you understand or interpret it. My reading of her character makes me feel that she was too responsible a person to do those things... N-COUNT: with supp, usu N of n 4. The reading on a measuring device is the figure or measurement that it shows. The gauge must be giving a faulty reading. N-COUNT 5. In the British Parliament or the US Congress, a reading is one of the three stages of introducing and discussing a new bill before it can be passed as law. The bill is expected to pass its second reading with a comfortable majority. N-COUNT: usu ord N 6. If you say that a book or an article makes interesting reading or makes for interesting reading, you mean that it is interesting to read. The list of drinks, a dozen pages long, makes fascinating reading... PHRASE: V inflects

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

red'-ing (miqra'; anagnosis): As a noun occurs once in the Old Testament (Ne 3:8) and 3 times in the New Testament (Ac 13:15; 2Co 3:14; 1Ti 4:13), each time with reference to the public reading of the Divine Law. The verb "to read" (qara'; anaginosko) occurs frequently both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament: (1) often in the sense of reading aloud to others, especially of the public reading of God's Law or of prophecy, as by Moses (Ex 24:7), Ezra (Ne 8:3,18), Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth (Lu 4:16), of the regular reading of the Law and the Prophets in the synagogues (Ac 13:27; 15:21), and of the reading of apostolic epistles in the Christian church (Col 4:16; 1Th 5:27); (2) also in the sense of reading to one's self, whether the divine word in Law or prophecy (De 17:19; Ac 8:28-30, etc.), or such things as private letters (2Ki 5:7; 19:14; Ac 23:34, etc.).

D. Miall Edwards

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Perusal. 2. Study of books. 3. Version, interpretation, lection. 4. Lecture, prelection, public recital. 5. Delineation, representation, rendering.

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