Reading

Verb
reading



Noun

 * 1) The process of interpreting written language.
 * 2) The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
 * 3) A value indicated by a measuring device.
 * a speedometer reading.
 * 1) A meeting where written material is read aloud.
 * a poetry reading.
 * 1) An interpretation.
 * a reading of the current situation.

Adjective

 * 1) Made or used for reading.
 * reading glasses.

Adjectives for Reading
essential; constructive; fascinating; stimulating; available; up-to-date; quick; intelligent; delightful; laborious; choral; extensive; assiduous; coarse; prodigious; random; absorbing; hurried; entertaining; tedious; monotonous; desultory; required; attentive; surreptitious; promiscuous; flighty; diverting; irregular; dreary; dull; omnivorous.

Verbs for Reading
assign—; coach in—; comment on— define —; enjoy—; expound—; improve— interpret—; recite—; render—; study— trans¬late—; unfold—; unravel—; wade through —; —acquaints; —delights; —edifies; —entertains ; —serves; —yields.

Thesaurus
CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, application, barometer, beam, beat signal, bibliolatry, bibliomania, blips, bluestockingism, boning, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, bounces, brainwork, canon, chalk talk, check, classical scholarship, classicism, composite reading, conflation, conning, construction, contemplation, cram, cramming, criterion, critical edition, culture, debate, declamation, definition, degree, description, diagnosis, diatribe, diplomatic text, display, donnishness, double-dot display, drill, echo, echo signal, edited text, edition, engrossment, eruditeness, erudition, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, extensive study, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, gauge, graduated scale, grind, grinding, harangue, headwork, hortatory address, humanism, humanistic scholarship, inaugural, inaugural address, inspection, intellectualism, intellectuality, interpretation, invective, jeremiad, learnedness, lection, letters, literacy, local oscillator signal, lucubration, meaning, measure, mental labor, model, norm, normalized text, oration, output signal, parameter, pattern, pedantism, pedantry, pep talk, peroration, perusal, philippic, picture, pips, pitch, practice, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, quantity, radar signal, readout, recital, recitation, reflection, rendering, rendition, restudy, restudying, return, return signal, review, rule, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, scale, scholarly edition, scholarship, screed, set speech, signal, signal display, speech, speechification, speeching, spot, standard, study, studying, subject, swotting, talk, talkathon, target image, test, text, tirade, touchstone, trace, transmitter signal, type, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, value, variant, version, video signal, way of seeing, wide reading, yardstick

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * Arabic: قراءة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: Lesen
 * Ido: lektado
 * Italian: lettura
 * Japanese:, 読むこと
 * Navajo:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: чтение
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: చదువు (chaduvu)


 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: uitlezing


 * Finnish: ,
 * Portuguese: leitura


 * Dutch: lezing


 * Finnish:


 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: inschatting


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * : lettura

Adjective

 * Dutch: lees-
 * Finnish: luku-


 * Icelandic: les-, lestrar-

Anagrams

 * deraign, gradine, grained