read¹ /rēd/

1. To look at and comprehend the meaning of written or printed words in
2. To understand as by interpretation of signs
3. To collect the meaning of
4. To go over progressively with silent understanding of symbols or with utterance aloud of words or performance of notes
5. To accept or offer as that which the writer intended
6. To learn from written or printed matter
7. To find recorded
8. To observe the indication of
9. To solve
10. To register, indicate
11. To teach, lecture on
12. To study
13. To impute by inference (as to read a meaning into)
14. To retrieve (data) from a storage device (computing)
15. To advise (archaic; see rede)
16. To make out
17. To interpret
18. To expound
19. To make known (Spenser)
20. To declare
21. To name (Spenser)

1. To perform the act of reading
2. To practise much reading
3. To study
4. To find mention
5. To give the reader an impression
6. To endure the test of reading
7. To deliver lectures
8. To have a certain wording

1. A spell of reading
2. Reading-matter
3. An opportunity of reading (Scot)
4. Counsel, a saying, an interpretation (Spenser)

1. Versed in books
2. Learned

readabilˈity /rēd-/ noun

readˈable adjective

1. Legible
2. Easy to read
3. Interesting without being of highest quality

readˈableness noun

readˈably adverb

readˈer noun

1. Someone who reads or reads much
2. A person who reads prayers or passages of scripture, etc at a church service
3. A lecturer, esp a higher grade of university lecturer
4. A proof-corrector
5. A person who reads and reports on manuscripts for a publisher
6. A reading-book
7. A pocketbook (criminal sl)
8. A device that projects a large image of a piece of microfilm onto a screen, for reading
9. A document reader (computing)

readˈership noun

1. The post of reader in a university
2. The total number of readers (of a newspaper, etc)

readˈing adjective

Addicted to reading

1. The action of the verb read
2. Perusal
3. Study of books
4. Public or formal recital, esp of a bill before Parliament (see first, second and third reading below)
5. The actual word or words that may be read in a passage of a text
6. The indication that can be read off from an instrument
7. Matter for reading
8. Lettering
9. An interpretation
10. A performer's conception of the meaning, rendering
11. Knowledge gained from having read books

reader advertisement noun

An advertising feature in a magazine which follows the style of the editorial part of the magazine, often with accompanying photographs or drawings

readers' inquiry card or readers' service card noun

A business reply card bound into a magazine with numbers corresponding to advertised products

readˈ-in noun

Input of data to a computer or storage device

reading age noun

Reading ability calculated as equivalent to the average ability at a certain age

readˈing-book noun

A book of exercises in reading

readˈing-boy noun (printing; obsolete)

A reader's assistant

readˈing-desk noun

1. A desk for holding a book or paper while it is read
2. A lectern

reading group same as book group (see under book).

readˈing-lamp noun

A lamp for reading by

readˈing-machine noun

1. A reader for microfilm
2. A document reader (computing)

reading matter noun

Printed material, eg books, magazines

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