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.
Definitions
- present participle. of Read
- noun. The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
- noun. Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
- noun. A lecture or prelection; public recital.
- noun. The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
- noun. Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.
- noun. An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
- adjective. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
- adjective. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
- noun. the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
"he has a job meter reading for the gas company"
- noun. the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
"his main reading was detective stories"
"suggestions for further reading"
- noun. 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"
- noun. a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- noun. written material intended to be read
"the teacher assigned new readings"
"he bought some reading material at the airport"
- noun. a particular interpretation or performance
"on that reading it was an insult"
"he was famous for his reading of Mozart"
- noun. a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
"the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems"
- noun. a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England
Synonyms
indication, interpretation, version, recital, recitation
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in reading:
degrain, deraign, deringa, gradine, grained
Common word forms
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