reading
See also: Reading
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reading
NounEdit
reading (countable and uncountable, plural readings)
- The process of interpreting written language.
- The student is behind in his reading by several chapters.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- He glanced across and took note of the speedometer reading.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- He noted that fine dust readings have been higher in Seoul than in Beijing recently.
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- He noted that fine dust readings have been higher in Seoul than in Beijing recently.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- I attended a poetry reading.
- An interpretation.
- That's my reading of the current situation.
- Something to read; reading material.
- 2014, Jürgen Moltmann, Margaret Kohl (editor), Jürgen Moltmann: Collected Readings, Fortress Press.
- The extent of what one has read.
- He's a man of good reading.
- (legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- After the homily there will be two readings from the Bible.
- (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
- (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
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process of interpreting written language
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process of interpreting a symbol
value indicated by a measuring device
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event at which material is read aloud
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interpretation
something to read — see reading material
extent of one's reading
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one of several stages a bill passes through
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