" reading "

[Noun]  | "read*ing" | \ ˈrē-diŋ \

1: the act of reading

2: material read or for reading

3: extent of material read

Origin: before 12th century ;

[Noun]  | "reading desk" 

1: lectern

Origin: 1703 ;

[Noun]  | "reading frame" 

1: a sequence of nucleotide triplets that is potentially translatable into a polypeptide and that is determined by the placement of a codon that initiates translation

Origin: 1961 ;

[Noun]  | "first reading" 

1: the first submitting of a bill before a quorum of a legislative assembly usually by title or number only

Origin: 1571 ;

[Noun]  | "second reading" 

1: the stage in the British legislative process following the first reading and usually providing for debate on the principal features of a bill before its submission to a committee for consideration of details

2: the stage in the U.S. legislative process that occurs when a bill has been reported back from committee and that provides an opportunity for full debate and amendment before a vote is taken on the question of a third reading

Origin: 1647 ;

[Noun]  | "speed-read*ing" | \ ˈspēd-ˌrē-diŋ \

1: a method of reading rapidly by skimming

Origin: 1962 ;

[Biographical name]  | "Read*ing" | \ ˈre-diŋ \

1: 1st Marquis of 1860-1935 Rufus Daniel Isaacs British statesman; viceroy of India (1921-26)

[Geographical name]  | "Read*ing" | \ ˈre-diŋ \

1: town in eastern Massachusetts north of Boston population 24,747

2: city on the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania population 88,082

3: town on the Thames River in southern England that is the capital of Berkshire population 219,000

[Verb]  | "read" | \ ˈrēd \

1: to receive or take in the sense of (letters, symbols, etc.) especially by sight or touch

2: to study the movements of with mental formulation of the communication expressed

3: to utter aloud the printed or written words of

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English reden "to counsel, order, decide, guide, govern, realize, grasp the meaning of, interpret, explain, teach, look at and understand (written symbols), say aloud (something written)," going back to Old English rǣdan, (non-West Saxon) rēdan "to rule, direct, decide, deliberate, counsel, suppose, guess, expound the meaning of (as a riddle or dream), look at and understand (written symbols), say aloud (something written)," going back to Germanic *rēdan- (whence also Old Frisian rēda "to advise, protect, help, plan, decide," Old Saxon rādan "to consult, guess, take care of, counsel," Old High German rātan "to advise, deliberate, assist," Old Icelandic ráða "to advise, counsel, decide, determine, plan, rule, explain, interpret," Gothic garedan "to make provision for," fauragarairoþ "[s/he] predestined"), going back to an Indo-European verbal base *(H)reh1dh- "carry through successfully," whence also Sanskrit rādhati "will bring about," rādhnóti "(s/he) achieves, prepares, satisfies," Avestan rādat̰ "will make right"; from a causative *(H)roh1dh-éi̯e-, Gothic rodjan "to speak, talk," Old Icelandic ræða "to speak, converse," Old Irish ráidid "(s/he) speaks, says, tells," imm-rádi "(s/he) thinks, reflects," Welsh adroddaf "(I) utter, say, relate," Old Church Slavic neraždǫ, neraditi "to have no care for, take no heed of" (also neroždǫ, neroditi), radi "for the sake of," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian ráditi "to work, do," Lithuanian ródyti "to show";

  * Note : Old English rǣdan was a Class VII strong verb, with evidence of reduplication (past tense reord), though also conjugated as a weak verb; by the Middle English period evidence for strong conjugation is vestigial. The expected outcome of Anglian rēdan would be *reed, reflecting Middle English close long ; the predominance of read, reflecting open long e, is perhaps due to interference from outcomes of Germanic *raidja- (see: {ready:1|ready:1}). This is essentially the conclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, which assembles a number of presumed outcomes of *raidja- under a somewhat shadowy verb rede, the inflected forms of which can be difficult to distinguish from redd and rid (see: {redd:1|redd:1}, ). — As is evident from the number of glosses, the Old and Middle English verbs covered a remarkably broad range of meanings. Those senses not having to do with the act of reading are now mostly represented by the spelling rede in Modern English (see: {rede|rede:1}). Though the sense "interpret" is evident in Old Norse, adaptation of this verb to refer to visual processing of written language is peculiar to Old English (and hence to Modern English); to express this idea other Germanic languages, excepting Gothic, have adapted, either by inheritance or loan, outcomes of the verb *lesan- "to gather, select," presumably as a calque on Latin legere (see: {legend|legend}). — A confusingly broad spectrum of meanings also characterizes the verb's Indo-European congeners, while the formal similarities are close. The gloss "carry through successfully" for *(H)reh1dh- ("erfolgreich durchführen") in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben, 2. Ausgabe, applies best only to the Indo-Iranian forms.;

[Plural noun]  | "reading glasses" 

1: eyeglasses used for reading or close work

Origin: 1853 ;

[Noun]  | "reading" 

[Noun]  | "mind reader" 

[Verb]  | "reading" 

[Verb]  | "read" 

[Verb]  | "reading out" 

[Verb]  | "speed-reading" 

[Phrase]  | "read the riot act (to)"