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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Read \Read\ (r[=e]d), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Read} (r[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reading}.] [OE. reden, r[ae]den, AS. r[=ae]dan to read, advise, counsel, fr. r[=ae]d advice, counsel, r[=ae]dan (imperf. reord) to advise, 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 thee 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 aloud 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Reading \Read"ing\ (r[=e]d"[i^]ng), noun
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 formal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message; "his main reading was detective stories"; "suggestions for further reading"
2: a particular interpretation or performance; "on that reading it was an insult"; "he was famous for his reading of Mozart"
3: a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument; "he could not believe the meter reading"; "the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm" [syn: {reading}, {meter reading}, {indication}]
4: written material intended to be read; "the teacher assigned new readings"; "he bought some reading material at the airport" [syn: {reading}, {reading material}]
5: a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something [syn: {interpretation}, {reading}, {version}]
6: a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England
7: a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems" [syn: {recitation}, {recital}, {reading}]
8: the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments; "he has a job meter reading for the gas company" [syn: {reading}, {meter reading}]
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