Reading1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Read.
2. (n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
3. (n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
4. (n.) A lecture; public recital.
5. (n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
6. (n.) Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.
7. (n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
8. (a.) of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
9. (a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
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