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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Read \Read\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Read}; p. pr & vb n. {Reading}.] [OE. reden, r[ae]den, AS r[=ae]dan to read, advice, counsel, fr r[=ae]d advise, counsel, r[=ae]dan (imperf. reord) to advice, counsel, guess; akin to D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. r[=a][eth]a, Goth. r[=e]dan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. r[=a]dh to succeed. [root]116. Cf Riddle.] 1. To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] See {Rede}. Therefore, I read thee, get to God's word and thereby try all doctrine. --Tyndale. 2. To interpret; to explain; as to read a riddle. 3. To tell to declare; to recite. [Obs.] But read how art thou named and of what kin. --Spenser. 4. To go over as characters or words and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book. Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille. --Chaucer. Well could he rede a lesson or a story. --Chaucer. 5. Hence to know fully; to comprehend. Who is't can read a woman? --Shak. 6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. --Spenser. Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. --Shak. 7. To make a special study of as by perusing textbooks; as to read theology or law. {To read one's self in}, to read about the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reading \Read"ing\, n. 1. The act of one who reads; perusal; also printed or written matter to be read. 2. Study of books; literary scholarship; as a man of extensive reading. 3. A lecture or prelection; public recital. The Jews had their weekly readings of the law. --Hooker. 4. The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version. 5. Manner of reciting, or acting a part on the stage; way of rendering. [Cant] 6. An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as the reading of a barometer. {Reading of a bill} (Legislation), its normal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reading \Read"ing\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading. 2. Addicted to reading; as a reading community. {Reading book}, a book for teaching reading; a reader. {Reading desk}, a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used while reading the service in a church. {Reading glass}, a large lens with more or less magnifying power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc {Reading man}, one who reads much hence in the English universities, a close industrious student. {Reading room}, a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like to which persons resort. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: reading n 1: the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message; "he enjoys reading books" 2: a particular interpretation or performance; "on that reading it was an insult"; "he was famous for his reading of Mozart" 3: the data presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument; "he could not believe the meter reading" [syn: {meter reading}] 4: written material intended to be read; "the teacher assigned new readings" 5: a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something [syn: {interpretation}, {version}] 6: a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in S England [syn: {Reading}] 7: a public instance of reciting or repeating something prepared; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems" [syn: {recitation}, {recital}] 8: the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments; "he has a job meter reading for the gas company" [syn: {meter reading}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Reading, KS (city, FIPS 58600) Location: 38.51909 N, 95.95750 W Population (1990): 264 (115 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66868 Reading, MA (CDP, FIPS 56165) Location: 42.53577 N, 71.10700 W Population (1990): 22539 (8104 housing units) Area: 25.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 01867 Reading, MI (city, FIPS 67500) Location: 41.83920 N, 84.74733 W Population (1990): 1127 (436 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49274 Reading, MN Zip code(s): 56165 Reading, OH (city, FIPS 65732) Location: 39.22439 N, 84.43141 W Population (1990): 12038 (5117 housing units) Area: 7.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Reading, PA (city, FIPS 63624) Location: 40.33900 N, 75.92642 W Population (1990): 78380 (34276 housing units) Area: 25.3 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 19601, 19602, 19604, 19605, 19611 Reading, VT Zip code(s): 05062 From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect" and humor in slang. We know by one's reading His learning and breeding; By what draws his laughter We know his Hereafter. Read nothing, laugh never -- The Sphinx was less clever! Jupiter Muke
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