Dictionary Entry
reading
reading is a 7-letter English word with 17 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Read. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1present participle
of Read
- 2noun
The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
- 3noun
Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
- 4noun
A lecture or prelection; public recital.
- 5noun
The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
- 6noun
Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.
- 7noun
An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
- 8adjective
Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
- 9adjective
Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
- 10noun
the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
"he has a job meter reading for the gas company"
- 11noun
the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
"his main reading was detective stories"
"suggestions for further reading"
- 12noun
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"
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- 13noun
a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
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- 14noun
written material intended to be read
"the teacher assigned new readings"
"he bought some reading material at the airport"
- 15noun
a particular interpretation or performance
"on that reading it was an insult"
"he was famous for his reading of Mozart"
- 16noun
a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
"the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems"
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- 17noun
a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England
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