Definitions
How to pronounce reading:
Reading - as a noun
The cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
Example: "His main reading was detective stories"
A city on the river thames in berkshire in southern england
A particular interpretation or performance
Example: "On that reading it was an insult"
A datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
Example: "He could not believe the meter reading"
Written material intended to be read
Example: "The teacher assigned new readings"
A mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
A public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
Example: "The program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems"
The act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
Example: "He has a job meter reading for the gas company"
Reading - as a verb
To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
Example: "Have you read this book?"
To speak aloud words or other information that is written. often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
Example: "All right, class, who wants to read next?"
To read work(s) written by (a named author).
Example: "At the moment i'm reading milton."
To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from.
Example: "I can read his feelings in his face."
To consist of certain text.
Example: "On the door hung a sign that reads "no admittance"."
Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
Example: "Arabic reads right to left."
To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
(usually ironic) used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
Example: "Do you read me?"
To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal)
Example: "A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance."
(except scotland) to make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
Example: "I am reading theology at university."
To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
Example: "To read a hard disk; to read a port; to read the keyboard"
To think, believe; to consider (that).
To advise; to counsel. see rede.
To tell; to declare; to recite.
To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
Example: "Every time i go outside, i worry that someone will read me."
To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
Example Sentences
Word Game Points
READING has a SCRABBLE points total of 9.
READING has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 11.
READING has a WORDFEUD points total of 10.
