reading.html - n.
1 a the act or an instance of reading or perusing (the reading of the will). b matter to be read (have plenty of reading with me). c the specified quality of this (it made exciting reading).
2 (in comb.) used for reading (reading-lamp; reading-room).
3 literary knowledge (a person of wide reading).
4 an entertainment at which a play, poems, etc., are read (poetry reading).
5 a figure etc. shown by a meter or other recording instrument.
6 an interpretation or view taken (what is your reading of the facts?).
7 an interpretation made (of drama, music, etc.).
8 each of the successive occasions on which a bill must be presented to a legislature for acceptance (see also first readingsecond readingthird reading).
9 the version of a text, or the particular wording, conjectured or given by an editor etc.

reading age reading ability expressed as the age for which the same ability is calculated as average (has a reading age of eight). [OE (as READ)]

reading.html - adv.
1 without showing reluctance; willingly.
2 without difficulty.

reading.html - n.
1 a the act or an instance of reading or perusing (the reading of the will). b matter to be read (have plenty of reading with me). c the specified quality of this (it made exciting reading).
2 (in comb.) used for reading (reading-lamp; reading-room).
3 literary knowledge (a person of wide reading).
4 an entertainment at which a play, poems, etc., are read (poetry reading).
5 a figure etc. shown by a meter or other recording instrument.
6 an interpretation or view taken (what is your reading of the facts?).
7 an interpretation made (of drama, music, etc.).
8 each of the successive occasions on which a bill must be presented to a legislature for acceptance (see also first readingsecond readingthird reading).
9 the version of a text, or the particular wording, conjectured or given by an editor etc.

reading age reading ability expressed as the age for which the same ability is calculated as average (has a reading age of eight). [OE (as READ)]

reading.html - {v. phr.} To understand all of a writer's meaning by guessing at what he has left unsaid. * /Some kinds of poetry make you read between the lines./ * /A clever foreign correspondent can often avoid censorship by careful wording, leaving his audience to read between the lines./

reading.html - {v. phr.} To attribute extra meaning to; deduce from; consider to be implicit in. * /Just because Fred's letters sounded so friendly Mary was wrong to read anything serious into them./

reading.html - {v. phr.} To read in a speaking voice from a list. * /The secretary read off the names of those present in alphabetical order./