[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

read \read\ r=ed, v. t. imp.  p. p. read re^d; p.
   pr.  vb. n. reading. oe. reden, raeden, as. r=aedan
   to read, advise, counsel, fr. r=aed advice, counsel,
   r=aedan imperf. reord to advise, counsel, guess; akin to
   d. raden to advise, g. raten, rathen, icel. r=aetha,
   goth. r=edan in comp., and perh. also to skr. r=adh to
   succeed. root116. cf. riddle.
   1. to advise; to counsel. obs. see rede.
      1913 webster

            therefore, i read thee, get thee to god's word, and
            thereby try all doctrine.             --tyndale.
      1913 webster

   2. to interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
      1913 webster

   3. to tell; to declare; to recite. obs.
      1913 webster

            but read how art thou named, and of what kin.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

   4. to go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or
      recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of,
      as of language, by interpreting the characters with which
      it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to
      read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read
      the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
      1913 webster

            redeth read ye the great poet of itaille.
                                                  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            well could he rede a lesson or a story. --chaucer.
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   5. hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
      1913 webster

            who is't can read a woman?            --shak.
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   6. to discover or understand by characters, marks, features,
      etc.; to learn by observation.
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            an armed corse did lie,
            in whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
                                                  --spenser.
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            those about her
            from her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
                                                  --shak.
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   7. to make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as,
      to read theology or law.
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   to read one's self in, to read aloud the thirty-nine
      articles and the declaration of assent, -- required of a
      clergyman of the church of england when he first
      officiates in a new benefice.
      1913 webster
see also:
read reading riddle rede to read one's self in 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

reading \read"ing\, a.
   1. of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
      1913 webster

   2. addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
      1913 webster

   reading book, a book for teaching reading; a reader.

   reading desk, a desk to support a book while reading; esp.,
      a desk used while reading the service in a church.

   reading glass, a large lens with more or less magnifying
      power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc.

   reading man, one who reads much; hence, in the english
      universities, a close, industrious student.

   reading room, a room appropriated to reading; a room
      provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which
      persons resort.
      1913 webster
see also:
reading book reading desk reading glass reading man reading room 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

reading \read"ing\ r=ed"i^ng, n.
   1. the act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or
      written matter to be read.
      1913 webster

   2. study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of
      extensive reading.
      1913 webster

   3. a lecture or prelection; public recital.
      1913 webster

            the jews had their weekly readings of the law.
                                                  --hooker.
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   4. the way in which anything reads; force of a word or
      passage presented by a documentary authority; lection;
      version.
      1913 webster

   5. manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of
      rendering. cant
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   6. an observation read from the scale of a graduated
      instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
      1913 webster

   reading of a bill legislation, its formal recital, by the
      proper officer, before the house which is to consider it.
      1913 webster
see also:
reading of a bill 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

reading
     n 1: the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic
          message; "he enjoys reading books"
     2: 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" syn: meter reading,
         indication
     3: a particular interpretation or performance; "on that reading
        it was an insult"; "he was famous for his reading of
        mozart"
     4: written material intended to be read; "the teacher assigned
        new readings"; "he bought some reading material at the
        airport" syn: reading material
     5: a mental representation of the meaning or significance of
        something syn: interpretation, version
     6: a city on the river thames in berkshire in southern england
     7: a public instance of reciting or repeating from memory
        something prepared in advance; "the program included songs
        and recitations of well-loved poems" syn: recitation, recital
     8: the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments; "he
        has a job meter reading for the gas company" syn: meter
        reading
see also:
meter reading indication reading material interpretation version recitation 
recital meter reading 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

168 moby thesaurus words for "reading":
   crt spot, dm display, doppler signal, if signal, im display,
   rf echoes, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, application,
   barometer, beam, beat signal, bibliolatry, bibliomania, blips,
   bluestockingism, boning, book learning, book madness, bookiness,
   bookishness, booklore, bounces, brainwork, canon, chalk talk,
   check, classical scholarship, classicism, composite reading,
   conflation, conning, construction, contemplation, cram, cramming,
   criterion, critical edition, culture, debate, declamation,
   definition, degree, description, diagnosis, diatribe,
   diplomatic text, display, donnishness, double-dot display, drill,
   echo, echo signal, edited text, edition, engrossment, eruditeness,
   erudition, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, extensive study,
   filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech,
   funeral oration, gauge, graduated scale, grind, grinding, harangue,
   headwork, hortatory address, humanism, humanistic scholarship,
   inaugural, inaugural address, inspection, intellectualism,
   intellectuality, interpretation, invective, jeremiad, learnedness,
   lection, letters, literacy, local oscillator signal, lucubration,
   meaning, measure, mental labor, model, norm, normalized text,
   oration, output signal, parameter, pattern, pedantism, pedantry,
   pep talk, peroration, perusal, philippic, picture, pips, pitch,
   practice, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, quantity,
   radar signal, readout, recital, recitation, reflection, rendering,
   rendition, restudy, restudying, return, return signal, review,
   rule, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, scale,
   scholarly edition, scholarship, screed, set speech, signal,
   signal display, speech, speechification, speeching, spot, standard,
   study, studying, subject, swotting, talk, talkathon, target image,
   test, text, tirade, touchstone, trace, transmitter signal, type,
   valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, value, variant,
   version, video signal, way of seeing, wide reading, yardstick

[6] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

reading, n.  the general body of what one reads.  in our country it
consists, as a rule, of indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and
humor in slang.

    we know by one's reading
    his learning and breeding;
    by what draws his laughter
    we know his hereafter.
    read nothing, laugh never --
    the sphinx was less clever
                                                          jupiter muke

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

reading, ks city, fips 58600
  location: 38.51909 n, 95.95750 w
  population 1990: 264 115 housing units
  area: 0.5 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
  zip codes: 66868
reading, ma cdp, fips 56165
  location: 42.53577 n, 71.10700 w
  population 1990: 22539 8104 housing units
  area: 25.7 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
  zip codes: 01867
reading, mi city, fips 67500
  location: 41.83920 n, 84.74733 w
  population 1990: 1127 436 housing units
  area: 2.5 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
  zip codes: 49274
reading, mn
  zip codes: 56165
reading, oh city, fips 65732
  location: 39.22439 n, 84.43141 w
  population 1990: 12038 5117 housing units
  area: 7.6 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
reading, pa city, fips 63624
  location: 40.33900 n, 75.92642 w
  population 1990: 78380 34276 housing units
  area: 25.3 sq km land, 0.7 sq km water
  zip codes: 19601, 19602, 19604, 19605, 19611
reading, vt
  zip codes: 05062

[8] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

reading, oh -- u.s. city in ohio
   population 2000:    11292
   housing units 2000: 5128
   land area 2000:     2.919617 sq. miles 7.561773 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    2.919617 sq. miles 7.561773 sq. km
   fips code:            65732
   located within:       ohio oh, fips 39
   location:             39.222709 n, 84.439036 w
   zip codes 1990:    
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    reading, oh
    reading

[9] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

reading, pa -- u.s. city in pennsylvania
   population 2000:    81207
   housing units 2000: 34314
   land area 2000:     9.819278 sq. miles 25.431811 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.244400 sq. miles 0.632993 sq. km
   total area 2000:    10.063678 sq. miles 26.064804 sq. km
   fips code:            63624
   located within:       pennsylvania pa, fips 42
   location:             40.341692 n, 75.926301 w
   zip codes 1990:     19601 19602 19604 19605 19611
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    reading, pa
    reading

[10] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

reading, ks -- u.s. city in kansas
   population 2000:    247
   housing units 2000: 108
   land area 2000:     0.208385 sq. miles 0.539714 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    0.208385 sq. miles 0.539714 sq. km
   fips code:            58600
   located within:       kansas ks, fips 20
   location:             38.519102 n, 95.959091 w
   zip codes 1990:     66868
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    reading, ks
    reading

[11] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

reading, ma -- u.s. census designated place in massachusetts
   population 2000:    23708
   housing units 2000: 8823
   land area 2000:     9.926765 sq. miles 25.710202 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    9.926765 sq. miles 25.710202 sq. km
   fips code:            56165
   located within:       massachusetts ma, fips 25
   location:             42.525850 n, 71.109939 w
   zip codes 1990:     01867
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    reading, ma
    reading

[12] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

reading, mi -- u.s. city in michigan
   population 2000:    1134
   housing units 2000: 432
   land area 2000:     0.975680 sq. miles 2.527000 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    0.975680 sq. miles 2.527000 sq. km
   fips code:            67500
   located within:       michigan mi, fips 26
   location:             41.838392 n, 84.747297 w
   zip codes 1990:     49274
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    reading, mi
    reading

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