reading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēd'ĭng
ipa: /ˈɹiːdɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈɹiːɾɪŋ]
ipa: /ˈɹidiŋ/
ipa: [ˈɹiɾiŋ]
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: readings
Etymology: From Middle English reding, redynge, redunge, from Old English rǣding (“reading”), equivalent to read + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The student is behind in his reading by several chapters.
text: That's my reading of the current situation.
glosses: The process of interpreting written language.
glosses: The process of interpreting written language.
The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
glosses: The process of interpreting written language.
An interpretation.
examples: text: He glanced across and took note of the speedometer reading.
text: He noted that fine dust readings have been higher in Seoul than in Beijing recently.
ref: 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: A value indicated by a measuring device.
examples: text: I attended a poetry reading.
glosses: An event at which written material is read aloud.
examples: text: Some Chinese characters have numerous readings.
text: Recent reports from Taiwan (Formosa), although fragmentary, begin to give a picture of economic conditions following the conclusion of the war. Now officially referred to as Taiwan Province, the island's former Japanese administration is being replaced by Chinese officials with little change, at least as yet, in the administrative pattern. Although there is no indication that ideographs will be changed, Chinese readings rather than Japanese will be followed for place names. Taihoku, for example, will be read in our alphabet as Taipei. This city presumably will continue to be the capital of Taiwan.
ref: 1946 February 16, “China”, in Foreign Commerce Weekly, volume XXII, number 7, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, column 2:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
examples: ref: 2014, Jürgen Moltmann, edited by Margaret Kohl, Jürgen Moltmann: Collected Readings, Fortress Press.:
glosses: Something to read; reading material.
examples: text: He's a man of good reading.
glosses: The extent of what one has read.
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
examples: text: After the homily there will be two readings from the Bible.
glosses: A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
topics: education
glosses: The content of a reading list.
qualifier: go
glosses: The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
Derived terms: billet reading
book reading
close reading
cold reading
cross-reading
e-reading
first reading
lip reading
lip-reading
mind-reading
mind reading
mood reading
muscle reading
open reading frame
palm reading
poetry reading
popcorn reading
readin'
reading age
reading book
reading break
reading comprehension
reading copy
reading frame
reading glasses
reading group
reading knowledge
reading lamp
reading-lamp
reading light
reading list
reading material
reading nook
reading notice
reading room
reading stone
reading week
second reading
speed reading
third reading
variant reading
various reading