reading

From read +‎ -ing.

• enPR: rēd'ĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːdɪŋ/, [ˈɹiːɾɪŋ], /ˈɹidiŋ/, [ˈɹiɾiŋ]

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• Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ

reading

1. present participle of read

reading (countable and uncountable, plural readings)

1. The process of interpreting written language.

   The student is behind in his reading by several chapters.

2. The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
3. A value indicated by a measuring device.

   He glanced across and took note of the speedometer reading.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     He noted that fine dust readings have been higher in Seoul than in Beijing recently.

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4. An event at which written material is read aloud.

   I attended a poetry reading.

5. An interpretation.

   That's my reading of the current situation.

6. Something to read; reading material.
   • 2014, Jürgen Moltmann, Margaret Kohl (editor), Jürgen Moltmann: Collected Readings, Fortress Press.
7. The extent of what one has read.

   He's a man of good reading.

8. (legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
9. A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.

   After the homily there will be two readings from the Bible.

10. (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
11. (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.

• Dearing, dearing, deraign, gradine, grained, inraged