Reading /(rēd"ĭng)/

Read·ing

Reading

n.
  1. The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
  2. Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
  3. A lecture or prelection; public recital.
    The Jews had their weekly readings of the law.
  4. The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
  5. Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering. [Cant]
  6. An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.

Phrases & Compounds
Reading of a bill
its formal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.

Reading

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
  2. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

Phrases & Compounds
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.