reader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: advertising
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gambling
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marketing
Etymology: From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādāri, equivalent to read + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).
Base: read
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: readers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who reads.
pos: noun
examples: an early reader, a talented reader
gloss: A person who reads a publication.
pos: noun
examples: 10,000 weekly readers
In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”
gloss: A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
pos: noun
gloss: A proofreader.
pos: noun
gloss: A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
pos: noun
examples: They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.
gloss: A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
pos: noun
examples: "I am commissioned by the Queen to offer you the place of Italian reader; and I assure you the offer was made with many kind expressions of interest. You will enter upon the duties, which are almost nominal, immediately."
gloss: A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: Any device that reads something.
pos: noun
examples: a card reader, a microfilm reader
The reMarkable PDF reader is really targeted at the digital writing market, rather than the digital reading market, though most serious e-readers support pens for annotations and signatures.
A quick search on Kaiser's website, there was nothing that talked about plate readers or a usage policy.
gloss: A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
pos: noun
gloss: An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
pos: noun
examples: Appletons’ School Readers
gloss: A literary anthology.
pos: noun
examples: A good bedtime reader should entertain and delight, and that's what I find in Girard Kent's The Boy Harleqin ^([sic]) and Other Stories.
gloss: A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
pos: noun
gloss: A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
pos: noun
gloss: Reading glasses.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
examples: LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.
Of the 150,000,000 decks of cards sold each year in America, Scarne estimates that 1 percent get marked at some point. Yet, as he discovered in his 1972 gambling survey, only 2 percent of average players have any idea of how to detect these "readers."
gloss: A wallet or pocketbook.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: […] Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind; / R was a Reader, with flimsies well lined; […]
gloss: At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
pos: noun
Derived words: barcode reader
beta reader
blind reader
book-reader
card reader
copyreader
counterreader
early reader
easy reader
e-book reader
email reader
e-reader
exercise for the reader
feedreader
first reader
hyperreader
interreader
intrareader
lay reader
lipreader
microplate reader
microreader
mind reader
mind-reader
newsreader
nonreader
palm reader
plate reader
playreader
prereader
proof-reader
proof reader
readerbase
readerboard
reader copy
readerdom
readeress
readerless
readerly
readership
rip-and-reader
scorereader
screen reader
sensitivity reader
sight-reader
stall-reader
subreader
wreader
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