- reading
- [[t]ri͟ːdɪŋ[/t]]
♦♦♦readings1) N-UNCOUNT Reading is the activity of reading books.
I have always loved reading.
...young people who find reading and writing difficult.
2) N-COUNT A reading is an event at which poetry or extracts from books are read to an audience.This year's event consisted of readings, lectures and workshops.
...a poetry reading.
3) N-COUNT: with supp, usu N of n Your reading of a word, text, or situation is the way in which you understand or interpret it.My reading of her character makes me feel that she was too responsible a person to do those things...
Local public housing authorities disagree with this reading of the law.
4) N-COUNT The reading on a measuring device is the figure or measurement that it shows.Once you have recorded the reading, shake the thermometer down to below 36 degrees...
The gauge must be giving a faulty reading.
5) N-COUNT: usu ord N In the British Parliament or the US Congress, a reading is one of the three stages of introducing and discussing a new bill before it can be passed as law.The bill is expected to pass its second reading with a comfortable majority.
6) PHRASE: V inflects If you say that a book or an article makes interesting reading or makes for interesting reading, you mean that it is interesting to read.The list of drinks, a dozen pages long, makes fascinating reading...
The report, called `Child Poverty and Deprivation in the UK', makes for depressing reading.
English dictionary. 2008.
