reading

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The activity of looking at and understanding written words.

   She loves reading and finishes a new book every week.

2. 2
   noun

   Books, articles, or other written material meant to be read.

   The teacher assigned some reading for the weekend.

3. 3
   noun

   A number or value shown by a measuring instrument.

   We could not believe the reading on the electricity meter.

4. 4
   noun

   A particular way of understanding or interpreting something.

   On that reading, his comment was clearly meant as an insult.

5. 5
   noun

   The act of reading a text aloud to an audience.

   The reading at the funeral was from a famous poem.

From Old English Rēadingas, the name of a tribe or clan of early Anglo-Saxon England whose capital was at Reading. Not related to reading.

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