reading

Definitions of reading in various dictionaries:

noun - the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message

noun - a particular interpretation or performance

noun - a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument

noun - written material intended to be read

noun - a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something

noun - a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England

noun - a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance

noun - the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments

verb - interpret something that is written or printed

verb - have or contain a certain wording or form

verb - look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed

verb - obtain data from magnetic tapes

verb - interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky

verb - interpret something in a certain way

verb - be a student of a certain subject

verb - indicate a certain reading

verb - audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role

verb - to hear and understand

verb - make sense of a language

The act or activity of one that reads.

The act or practice of rendering aloud written or printed matter: skilled at forensic reading.

An official or public recitation of written material: the reading of a will; a reading by the poet of her own works.

The specific form of a particular passage in a text: an unusual reading of the old manuscript.

The distinctive interpretation of a work of performing art given by the person or persons performing it.

A personal interpretation or appraisal: He gave us his reading of the situation.

Written or printed material.

The information indicated by a gauge or graduated instrument.

noun - material that is read