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R0097500 (rĕd′ĭng)1. A borough of south-central England west of London. Occupied by the Danes in 871, it was chartered in 1253.2. A city of southeast Pennsylvania on the Schuykill River northwest of Philadelphia. Settled in 1748, it is an important commercial, industrial, and transportation center.

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R0068300 (rē′dĭng)n.1. The act or activity of one that reads.2. The act or practice of rendering aloud written or printed matter: skilled at forensic reading.3. An official or public recitation of written material: the reading of a will; a reading by the poet of her own works.4. a. The specific form of a particular passage in a text: a manuscript with a variant reading.b. The distinctive interpretation of a work of performing art given by the person or persons performing it.5. An interpretation or appraisal: He gave us his reading of the situation.6. Written or printed material: The survivors' account is fascinating reading.7. The information indicated by a gauge or graduated instrument.

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(ˈriːdɪŋ) n1. a. the act of a person who readsb. (as modifier): a reading room; a reading lamp. 2. a. ability to readb. (as modifier): the reading public; a child of reading age. 3. any matter that can be read; written or printed text4. a public recital or rendering of a literary work5. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) the form of a particular word or passage in a given text, esp where more than one version exists6. an interpretation, as of a piece of music, a situation, or something said or written7. knowledge gained from books: a person of little reading. 8. a measurement indicated by a gauge, dial, scientific instrument, etc9. (Parliamentary Procedure) parliamentary procedure a. the formal recital of the body or title of a bill in a legislative assembly in order to begin one of the stages of its passageb. one of the three stages in the passage of a bill through a legislative assembly. See first reading, second reading, third reading10. (Law) the formal recital of something written, esp a will

Reading

(ˈrɛdɪŋ) n1. (Placename) a town in S England, in Reading unitary authority, Berkshire, on the River Thames: university (1892). Pop: 232 662 (2001)2. (Placename) a unitary authority in S England, in Berkshire. Pop: 144 100 (2003 est). Area: 37 sq km (14 sq miles)

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n. 1. the action or practice of a person who reads. 2. the oral interpretation of written language. 3. the interpretation given in the performance of a dramatic part, musical composition, etc. 4. the extent to which a person has read; literary knowledge. 5. matter read or for reading: light reading. 6. the form or version of a given passage in a particular text: the various readings of a line in Shakespeare. 7. an instance or occasion in which a text or literary work is read or recited in public. 8. an interpretation given to anything: What is your reading of the situation? 9. the indication of a graduated instrument: The thermometer reading is 101.2°F. adj. 10. pertaining to or used for reading: reading glasses. 11. given to reading: the reading public. [before 900]

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n. 1. a city in Berkshire, in S England. 137,700. 2. a city in SE Pennsylvania. 76,550.

Reading

See also authors; books; literary style; literature; verse.
alexiadyslexia.dyslexiaan impairment of the ability to read because of a brain defect. Also called alexia. — dyslexie, adj.strephosymboliaMedicine. 1. a disorder of perception causing objects to seem as if reversed in a mirror.
2. a reading difficulty characterized by confusion between similar but oppositely oriented letters (b-d, etc.) and a tendency to reverse direction in reading. — strephosymbolic, adj.

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noun1. perusal, study, review, examination, inspection, scrutiny This knowledge makes the second reading as enjoyable as the first.2. learning, education, knowledge, scholarship, erudition, edification, book-learning a man of great imagination, of wide reading and deep learning3. recital, performance, rendering, rendition, lesson, lecture, sermon, homily a poetry reading4. interpretation, take (informal, chiefly U.S.), understanding, treatment, version, construction, impression, grasp, conception There is a reading of this situation which upsets people.5. measurement, record, figure, indication The gauge must be giving a faulty reading.Quotations
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body" [Richard Steele The Tatler]
"Some people say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading" [Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts]
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing" [Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird]

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nounOne's artistic conception as shown by the way in which something such as a dramatic role or musical composition is rendered:execution, interpretation, performance, realization, rendering, rendition.

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(riːd) – past tense, past participle read (red) – verb1. to look at and understand (printed or written words or other signs). Have you read this letter?; Can your little girl read yet?; Can anyone here read Chinese?; to read music; I can read (= understand without being told) her thoughts/mind.阅读2. to learn by reading. I read in the paper today that the government is going to cut taxes again.获悉3. to read aloud, usually to someone else. I read my daughter a story before she goes to bed; I read to her before she goes to bed.朗读4. to pass one's time by reading books etc for pleasure etc. I don't have much time to read these days.阅读5. to study (a subject) at a university etc. 攻读6. to look at or be able to see (something) and get information from it. I can't read the clock without my glasses; The nurse read the thermometer.辨认7. to be written or worded; to say. His letter reads as follows: `Dear Sir, ...' （文章或信）内容是 8. (of a piece of writing etc) to make a (good, bad etc) impression. This report reads well.读起来9. (of dials, instruments etc) to show a particular figure, measurement etc. The thermometer reads –5C.读数是10. to (cause a word, phrase etc to) be replaced by another, eg in a document or manuscript. There is one error on this page – For `two yards', read `two metres'; `Two yards long' should read `two metres long'. （在勘误表中）用...代替 noun the act, or a period, of reading. I like a good read before I go to sleep.一段阅读时间ˈreadable adjective (negative unreadable). 1. easy or pleasant to read. I don't usually enjoy poetry but I find these poems very readable. 使人爱读的，易读的 2. able to be read. Your handwriting is scarcely readable. （笔迹）清楚的 ˈreadableness noun 清楚易读，值得一读 ˌreadaˈbility noun 易读，可读性有趣味 ˈreader noun1. a person who reads books, magazines etc. He's a keen reader.读者2. a person who reads a particular newspaper, magazine etc. The editor asked readers to write to him with their opinions.读者3. a reading-book, especially for children or for learners of a foreign language. a Latin reader.读本ˈreadership noun the (number of) people who read a newspaper, magazine etc. 读者（总数） ˈreading noun1. the act of reading. 读2. the reading of something aloud, as a (public) entertainment. a poetry reading.朗诵3. the ability to read. The boy is good at reading.阅读能力4. the figure, measurement etc on a dial, instrument etc. The reading on the thermometer was –5 C.读数reading-1. for the purpose of reading. reading-glasses; a reading-room in a library.供阅读用的2. for learning to read. a reading-book.学习阅读用的ˈreading material noun a list of books, stories, articles etc that need to be read for one's studies. 阅读资料ˈreading matter noun something written for others to read (eg books, newspapers, letters). There's a lot of interesting reading matter in our local library.读物ˈread-out – plural ˈread-outs – noun data produced by a computer, eg on magnetic or paper tape. 读出read between the lines to look for or find information (eg in a letter) which is not actually stated. 体会字里行间的言外之意read off to read from a dial, instrument etc. The engineer read off the temperatures one by one.读取read on to continue to read; to read further. He paused for a few moments, and then read on.继续读read out to read aloud. Read out the answers to the questions.宣读read over/through to read from beginning to end. I'll read through your manuscript, and let you know if I find any mistakes. 重通读，仔细阅读

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(rĕd`ĭng), borough and unitary authority (1991 pop. 194,727), S central England, on the Kennet River near its influx to the Thames. Reading, which was the seat of the former county of Berkshire, is a market center with iron founding, engineering, malting, brewing, and biscuit and seed industries. It was occupied in 871 by the Danes, who burned it in 1006. A gateway and ruins of buildings, surrounded by a public park, remain of a Benedictine abbey founded in 1121 by Henry I, who is buried there. Several parliaments met in the abbey. In 1643 the town surrendered to the parliamentarians under the 3d earl of Essex. There are a 15th-century grammar school, the Reading College of Technology, and the Univ. of Reading (1926; formerly a college, founded 1892, of the Univ. of Oxford). Oscar WildeWilde, Oscar
(Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), 1854–1900, Irish author and wit, b. Dublin. He is most famous for his sophisticated, brilliantly witty plays, which were the first since the comedies of Sheridan and Goldsmith to have both dramatic and literary merit.
..... Click the link for more information. 's Ballad of Reading Gaol was inspired by his imprisonment there, and Reading is the Aldbrickham of Thomas HardyHardy, Thomas,
1840–1928, English novelist and poet, b. near Dorchester, one of the great English writers of the 19th cent.

The son of a stonemason, he derived a love of music from his father and a devotion to literature from his mother.
..... Click the link for more information. 's Jude the Obscure.

Reading.

(rĕd`ĭng) 1 Town (1990 pop. 22,539), Middlesex co., NE Mass., a suburb of Boston; settled 1639, set off from Lynn and inc. 1644. Printing is the major industry. A 17th-century tavern is in Reading. 2 City (1990 pop. 12,038), Hamilton co., SW Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati; platted 1798, inc. 1851. Chemicals are among its various manufactures.

3 City (1990 pop. 78,380), seat of Berks co., SE Pa., on the Schuylkill River, in the Pennsylvania Dutch region; laid out 1748, inc. as a city 1847. Once an important industrial, commercial, and railroad city, Reading has become a major factory outlet center. Its products include foods, specialty metals, crushed stone, detergents, machinery and manufacturing systems, and plastic parts. Industrial growth began in the late 18th cent. Reading was an early iron-producing town; cannons were made there during the American Revolution, and it was a Union ordnance center during the Civil War. The completion of the Philadelphia and Reading RR added to the city's economic growth, which was also spurred by the production of automobiles there in the early 1900s. Reading is the seat of Albright College, Alvernia Univ., and the Berks Campus of Pennsylvania State Univ. Also in the city are the county historical society, a museum, and a planetarium. Nearby points of interest include the birthplace of Daniel BooneBoone, Daniel,
1734–1820, American frontiersman, b. Oley (now Exeter) township, near Reading, Pa.

The Boones, English Quakers, left Pennsylvania in 1750 and settled (1751 or 1752) in the Yadkin valley of North Carolina.
..... Click the link for more information. (a state historic park) and the Pagoda, a Japanese-style observation tower on Mt. Penn.

reading,

process of mentally interpreting written symbols. Facility in reading is an essential factor in educational progress, and instruction in this basic skill is a primary purpose of elementary education. The ability to read was not considered important for most laymen until sometime after Johann Gutenberg's invention of the printing press (c.1450) and the Protestant Reformation, with its emphasis on individual interpretation of the Bible. Until that time reading was generally restricted to the clergy and certain members of the nobility. Although illiteracyilliteracy,
inability to meet a certain minimum criterion of reading and writing skill. Definition of Illiteracy

The exact nature of the criterion varies, so that illiteracy must be defined in each case before the term can be used in a meaningful way. In 1930 the U.
..... Click the link for more information. is still a problem in many areas of the world, compulsory childhood education laws have assured that most citizens of advanced industrial nations can read.

Physiological and psychological studies suggest that the process of reading is based on a succession of quick eye movements, known as fixations, across the written line, each of which lasts for about a quarter of a second. In each fixation more than one word is perceived and interpreted, so that a skilled reader may take in more than three words per fixation when reading easy material. Depending on the rate of fixations and the difficulty of the material, an adult can read and understand anywhere from 200 to 1,000 words per minute.

There has been considerable difference of opinion about the best method of teaching children to read. By the end of the 20th cent. the educational concensus was largely that a combination of phonics, which emphasizes sound, and the whole-language method, which emphasizes meaning, is the most effective way to teach the skill. Most educators also agree on the importance of remedial work for students whose progress is impeded by impaired vision, faulty eye movements, developmental disabilities such as dyslexiadyslexia
, in psychology, a developmental disability in reading or spelling, generally becoming evident in early schooling. To a dyslexic, letters and words may appear reversed, e.g., d seen as b or was seen as saw.
..... Click the link for more information. , or personal handicaps resulting from poor teaching.

Bibliography

See G. Hildreth, Teaching Reading (1958); I. A. Richards, How to Read a Page (1959); G. Cuomo, Becoming a Better Reader (1960); H. Diack, Reading and the Psychology of Perception (1960); J. S. Chall, Learning to Read: The Great Debate (1967); M. Cox, The Challenge of Reading Failure (1968); M. J. Adler and C. Van Doren, How to Read a Book (rev. ed. 1972); M. C. Robeck and J. A. R. Wilson, Psychology of Reading (1974).

Reading

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

A “reading” is material that is delivered to a sitter by a medium or a psychic. There are Spiritualist readings (sometimes referred to as “messages") and psychic readings. Either of these may be in the form of a private reading or a public reading. A Spiritualist private reading is one-on-one with the medium and usually allows the sitter to ask questions, give or ask for explanations (if necessary), and generally become more involved with the retrieval of the information. Public Spiritualist readings are more common, where the medium—often as a specific part of a Spiritualist church worship service—will stand on the platform and deliver messages to particular members of the congregation or audience. Here there is no opportunity for the recipient to ask questions. In both cases it may be necessary for the individual to follow up after the meeting to verify the information given.

Psychic readings are more generally private, with the psychic dealing with the past, present and probable future for the sitter. By definition these readings do not connect with spirit and the only way to gauge the accuracy of the future predictions is to wait and see. Some idea of the possible accuracy may be judged by what the psychic tells of the known past and present.

The National Spiritualist Association of Churches publishes a pamphlet titled Hints for a Good Reading. It offers the following advice for a reading from a Spiritualist medium.

1: Try to put your mind at ease and relax before you seek a medium’s help. It creates a better atmosphere for the reading and makes it easier for spirit to make contact.
2: Let the medium proceed in his or her own manner. Don’t expect your most pressing problems to be discussed at once.
3: Spirit provides evidence of identity in different ways. It may be by name, description, relationships, incidents, etc. Be willing to verify such evidential information so the medium can proceed to any message that is to be given.
4: Let the medium know when they are correct. Don’t attempt to confuse them. Be fair.
5: Arguing or wanting things done your way makes it difficult for the medium to function effectively and may lead to failure.
6: Something may make more sense by the end of the reading, or understanding of the message may come at a later time —after you have had a chance to think about it. So don’t be quick to say “No” to what is given by the medium.
7: The true success of a reading is not always measured by prophecy but by the guidance it provides. Prediction is possible, but you have the power to change coming events.
8: A good reading should explain the philosophy of harmonious living. Mediumship is not fortune-telling.
9: If you wish to ask a question, or questions, meditate on them in advance of the meeting. Give spirit ample time to get an answer. No spirit claims to have an answer on the spur of the moment. After all, you are communicating with people.
10: Don’t try to prolong a reading. The medium realizes when the forces are gone. You are always welcome to come again.

Sources:

Faubel, Rita: Hints for a Good Reading. Lily Dale: NSAC, nd

Reading

a city in Great Britain, in Berkshire, on the Thames River at the influx of the Kennet River. Population, 132,000 (1971). Transportation junction. Reading is the trade center of an agricultural region. It has a large food industry and a machine-building industry, including the production of aviation, agricultural, and electrical engineering equipment and machinery for enterprises of the food industry. There is also a printing industry. Reading has a university founded in 1926. The city’s history dates back to the ninth century. Southwest of Reading is the Aldermaston nuclear research center.

Reading

a city in the northeastern USA, in Pennsylvania, on the Schuylkill River. Population, 82,000 (1974; 304,000 including suburbs). The manufacturing industry employs 56,000 (1973). Reading’s main industries include the ferrous metal and metalworking industries and the manufacturing of pipe, industrial equipment, and optical engineering items. There is also a knit-goods industry. Coal is mined nearby. Reading was founded in the first half of the 18thcentury.

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in digital computers, the extraction of information from storage and the transmission of the information to other units of the computer. Reading is performed in most computer operations but sometimes constitutes an independent operation. The read process may be accompanied by the destruction, or erasing, of the contents of the storage cells or sections from which the information is read; such a destructive read may occur, for example, in the case of ferrite-core storage. Nondestructive reading is also possible—for example, in the case of magnetic tape or disk storage. In systems with nondestructive reading, once information is recorded it may be used many times. The read operation is characterized by the read time, which is the time required to deliver data from storage. Read times range from a few tens of nanoseconds to several microseconds. (See alsoRECORDING AND REPRODUCTION OF INFORMATION.)

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[′rēd·iŋ] (engineering) The indication shown by an instrument. Observation of the readings of one or more instruments. (cell and molecular biology) A linear process by which amino acid sequences are recognized by the protein-synthesizing system of a cell from messenger ribonucleic codes.

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1. the form of a particular word or passage in a given text, esp where more than one version exists 2. Parliamentary procedurea. the formal recital of the body or title of a bill in a legislative assembly in order to begin one of the stages of its passage b. one of the three stages in the passage of a bill through a legislative assembly 3. the formal recital of something written, esp a will

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1. a town in S England, in Reading unitary authority, Berkshire, on the River Thames: university (1892). Pop.: 232 662 (2001) 2. a unitary authority in S England, in Berkshire. Pop.: 144 100 (2003 est.). Area: 37 sq. km (14 sq. miles)

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noun perusal

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noun learning

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noun one's artistic conception as shown by the way in which something such as a dramatic role or musical composition is rendered

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noun the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message

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noun a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England

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