reading

Noun

• the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
  • he has a job meter reading for the gas company
    

• a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
  • the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems
    

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

• a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something

• written material intended to be read
  • the teacher assigned new readings
    
  • he bought some reading material at the airport
    

• a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
  • he could not believe the meter reading
    
  • the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm
    

• a particular interpretation or performance
  • on that reading it was an insult
    
  • he was famous for his reading of Mozart
    

• the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
  • his main reading was detective stories
    
  • suggestions for further reading
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  meter reading , recitation , recital , Reading , interpretation , version , reading material , indication