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Meaning reading meaning

What does reading mean?
Definitions in simple English

reading

A reading is a spoken performance of something written. The author was giving a reading of his new book.

reading

the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message his main reading was detective stories suggestions for further reading a particular interpretation or performance on that reading it was an insult he was famous for his reading of Mozart (= meter reading, indication) 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 (= reading material) written material intended to be read the teacher assigned new readings he bought some reading material at the airport (= interpretation) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something (= meter reading) the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments he has a job meter reading for the gas company (= recitation) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems

Reading

a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England

Synonyms reading synonyms

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Topics reading topics

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Examples reading examples

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Simple sentences

I remember reading the book.
I remember reading this book.
This book isn't worth reading.
I am fond of reading.
He was reading a textbook on American history.
He is reading a book.
When she was reading the letter, she looked sad.
She tore the letter up after reading it.
She sat in a chair reading a magazine.
My mother is reading a magazine.
I am reading a book.
For the first time in her life, Yuka has finished reading an English book.
The idea that reading makes you short-sighted has been popular for a couple of hundred years.
I'm reading a book about languages.
I tend to look at the pictures before reading the text.
He spent the evening reading a book.
He learned the news while reading the newspaper.
When I was a child, I would spend hours reading alone in my room.
Have you finished reading the novel?
A student raised his hand when the teacher finished the reading.
Reading kills time on a train trip.
Some books are worth reading over and over again.
What are you reading?
Reading aloud was a great effort to him.
Rain doesn't depress people who like reading.
I have been reading this for a few hours.
Have you finished reading that book yet?
Students should develop their reading skills.

Movie subtitles

That's a plausible reading of history.
Just waiting for the sats reading to come up.
I was just reading this thing online.
Should I even bother reading this one?
And I wanted some light reading, so I returned to the study.
I've been reading a pregnancy book so I know what's going on.
In the safety of an orphanage, the former street urchin is immersed in reading about real cowboys.
I lay in bed for quite a while, reading.
Yes. I was reading and I fell asleep.
You've been reading a lot of cheap tabloids.
She wants to sit up half the night, reading.
I was reading a book the other day.
Reading a book?
She's reading my lines wrong.
You've been reading too many dime novels.
Youth whistles, and we? We spend the rest of the evening reading a book.
They've got a whole town that does nothing but make roquefort somewhere in France. I was reading about it the other day.
A quiet evening at home, reading and listening to the radio.
Every morning I come to wake you. and every morning I find you already awake and reading.
Say, what-what are you reading now, my love?
I know you can read. because my reports say you foolishly spend your time in bed reading books!
To wit, the reading of the will of the late Angus lan McLaurel a kindly master, a friendly friend and a loyal Scot whom everybody respected.
Reading the cards is one of her virtues I forgot to tell you about.
Just gonna go take a little dump. I gotta go to the bathroom and go catch up on some reading. I gotta take the Browns to the Superbowl.
If you're reading this, please come home.
Aren't you done reading yet?
Before long, you'll be reading a whole lot about me.
I didn't mean to look so stupid, but I never miss reading your column.
We've been reading all about you in the fan magazines. Friend of yours?
Catching up on your reading?
What are you doing, reading my mail?
Reading your life story.
Before I finished reading about your arrest, they said you were out.
Reading his serial is the best part of the day.

News and current affairs

Indeed, it seems as if everyone in the Kremlin is reading Carl Schmitt, the Nazi legal theorist who taught that naming your enemy is the central mission of politics.
One should be careful, however, about reading too much into national opinion polls measuring the candidates' popular support.
We can all leave the TV off more hours per day and spend that time reading, talking with each other, and rebuilding the bases of personal health and social trust.
For those reading the tea leaves of global recovery, the third-quarter GDP numbers offered no solace.
But whether the Yukos affair proves to be an isolated case, as the Kremlin insists, depends on a reading of Russian President Vladimir Putin's motives.
The move came one week after the IMF concluded its annual Article IV visit to Switzerland, and the report has yet to be released; it could make for unusually interesting reading.
I've been reading newspaper columns in which writers say how dreadful it is, this mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals.
But, in reading these works, I do not find a clear or persuasive statement of any economic doctrine, except for basic notions of fairness and Christian charity.
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) acts as an interpreter in a process called transcription (the reading of genes).
No one is likely to be reading my emails or listening in on my Skype calls.
But one would not know it from reading the news headlines.
Recently, after reading some unflattering articles about him in our paper, Tsarukyan tried to invite me to a meeting.
But its obligation is to render a dispassionate reading of legal agreements, and it is renowned for doing so, which is one reason why it is the country's most trusted institution.
Perhaps leaders should be limited to one aide in the room and prohibited from reading formally prepared opening statements.
But is it really true that the world can or should learn about China only by reading works that are sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party?
After reading Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949, the year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huxley sent his former pupil a letter praising the novel.
Within minutes of going online in a pastoralist community in northeast Kenya, kids were reading about their own community as part of the Africa-wide Millennium Villages Project.
The best starting point would be a re-reading of Winston Churchill's famous speech in Zurich in 1946.
But my reading of the evidence does not agree with that of those who claim that the economy is actually improving, and that a sustained cyclical recovery is likely to begin within the next few months.
After reading literature by some of the world's leading experts on innovation - Clayton Christensen, Henry Chesbrough, John Kao, James Andrew, and Harold Sirkin - I was fascinated, but, alas, also frustrated.

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