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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reader
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a great talker/reader/admirer etc
▪ Anthony’s a great talker – sometimes you just can’t get a word in.
lay reader
mind reader
omnivorous reader
▪ an omnivorous reader
palm reader
voracious reader
▪ a voracious reader
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
avid
▪ Facing up to it I am an avid Punch reader, but enough is enough.
▪ Many become avid readers, work-out maniacs or bingo fanatics during the six months away from home.
▪ I am an avid reader of your magazine and eagerly look forward to each month's issue.
▪ But now she was an avid reader who liked nothing better than to haunt old bookstores.
▪ I have long been a avid reader of books about islands.
▪ Reagan was an avid reader of the conservative monthly Kuman Events, and frequently quoted from it at length.
▪ The library was a room which the Empress used constantly, for she was all her life an avid reader.
general
▪ Entries are detailed, accurate and solid, written in clear, nontechnical language for the general reader.
▪ However, the reality is very different, and for the general reader, slightly disappointing.
▪ Many scores of pages are devoted to these topics and the general reader will need to keep a bookmark in the footnotes.
▪ Books submitted will be assessed both for their scholarship and for their accessibility to the general reader.
▪ This is written for students of linguistics but also offers a good introduction for the general reader.
▪ Much for the specialist and general reader to enjoy.
▪ This is a highly technical volume, not recommended to the general reader.
lay
▪ The organisation is highly democratic, for lay readers are elected and then must consult their members in decision-making.
▪ Unfortunately for the lay reader, battalions had a strange nomenclature.
▪ His most striking proposition to the lay reader is that human beings are genetically programmed to learn certain kinds of language.
▪ Ironically, it may, indeed, frighten the lay reader away altogether.
▪ In 1898 he became a diocesan lay reader.
young
▪ It is not a language the young reader - or indeed any reader - is familiar with.
▪ Seven-and eight-year-old children are still very young as readers.
▪ This egregious nonsequitur requires further clarification, if only for your myriad younger readers.
▪ The concern is not whether children are missing some small element or other, but that texts yield meaning to young readers.
▪ It helps the young reader to come to terms with his or her own non-rational, unconscious-dominated behaviour.
▪ And this is exactly what young readers should be doing.
▪ We assume what the young reader is perceiving.
▪ On the way: a People for young readers.
■ VERB
ask
▪ We asked readers who rush from work to the kitchen to share their quick, family-friendly recipes and time-saving techniques.
▪ Last week, I asked readers to nominate which character they would vote out of the soaps.
▪ Seitz asks readers if they could imagine Ben Hogan or Arnold Palmer ever going to a sports psychologist.
▪ He might as well ask the reader to believe in those supremely credible terrorized musicians scraping and blowing through the small hours.
▪ I have never before asked readers of New Scientist to take political action.
▪ For this reason we are asking our readers to tell us about their experiences in the jobs race.
give
▪ We have £200 worth of Haar Sana goodies to give away to readers!
▪ Mr Strine also gives readers excuses for his losses, such as injuries to key players or even the weather.
▪ However it is hoped that this has given the reader an appreciation of some of the issues involved.
▪ Repetitive, patterned texts give emergent readers extra support while they are reading.
▪ It insists that all research is totally impartial to give readers objective facts about products and services.
▪ The language within the marks also provides a nice change from the narrative voice and gives your readers an interesting third-person perspective.
help
▪ They can help the reader to develop the appreciation and enjoyment of pictorial material by offering a range of rich visual experiences.
▪ Second, descriptions help your readers take in your message more completely.
▪ They will not help the reader to grow brighter flowers or bigger cabbages.
▪ The right balance of detail should help the reader quickly grasp the nature of the problem and your approach to it.
▪ Hopefully this will help readers decide where to play.
▪ This helps young readers want to read; it helps them grow into the kind of readers who carry books everywhere.
▪ Finally the extensive index and reference citation helps the reader to find relevant literature.
▪ It helps the young reader to come to terms with his or her own non-rational, unconscious-dominated behaviour.
invite
▪ At various points the book invites the reader to undertake activities and then to discuss the issues with a group.
▪ A series of close-up drawings of parts of animals, along with written clues, invite readers to guess the animal.
▪ Last autumn, we invited readers to contribute essays on how they believed information technology would change life in Britain.
leave
▪ We leave the reader to think about this until we reach Section 1.11.
▪ We leave it to the reader to appreciate what this will mean in due course, as work on oneself progresses.
▪ Yet they leave the reader hungry.
▪ But in volunteering answers to these questions she leaves the reader hungry.
▪ The task of integration is left to the reader.
▪ Nor does Mr Spence draw the historical lessons the book permits, leaving them for the reader.
▪ A qualified audit report, as opposed to an unqualified report, should leave the reader in no doubt as to its meaning and implications.
▪ We leave to the reader the explanation as to why each of the asserted equalities holds.
offer
▪ That's what I call offering the reader a choice of endings; but you may find me quite unreasonably literal-minded.
▪ The Category Romance offers consistency; the readers basically know what they are going to get before they open the book.
▪ HarperCollins has linked up with Glemby Hair Salons to offer five lucky readers a free top-to-toe treatment.
▪ Diet books can work similarly, by offering readers inspiration and a new strategy toward weight loss or better health.
▪ The Fresh Food Co is offering Prima readers 10 per cent off purchases over £25.
▪ As a monthly, the magazine can not offer its readers the overnight scores, nor preview the week's to matches.
▪ Which is why we're offering all our readers a chance to subscribe to New Scientist.
provide
▪ This is in order to provide the reader with a mental picture of the house as the technical options are discussed.
▪ This provides the reader or reviewer ample opportunity to write notes in regard to your material.
▪ Enough information is given to provide the reader with a grasp of the essentials of each area.
▪ It will continue to provide pleasure to readers for centuries and centuries into the future, Charles Dickens was a genius.
▪ However, they do provide the reader with some indication of the growth and size of the overall market.
▪ This brief summary of syndicated euro-credit lending will provide the reader with some idea of the complexity of such deals.
▪ A number of artists have indeed caused some confusion among those who have set expectations by providing picture-books for older readers.
read
▪ That is, the reader reads what is stated, and reads what is implied.
▪ Although many readers discuss their reading habits and wants with the library staff, an even larger number do not.
▪ I would guess that most of her readers have not read 29.
▪ But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer.
▪ Flesheating monsters and severed body parts dance through the pages as though daring the reader to read on.
▪ Few of her readers would have read the books and in wartime would be unlikely to obtain them.
▪ Her good readers are voracious and read their weight in books every week, while the slow readers lag behind.
remind
▪ It is interesting to see a professional historian reminding the reader explicitly of the relevance of his facts, analysis and discussion.
▪ In 25-page white papers, place a summary at the end to remind your reader of key points.
▪ Perhaps it is as well to remind the reader here of the nature of the epiphysis.
▪ Genesis 36 reminds its readers that Esau was the ancestor of the Edomites.
▪ The conclusion should remind the reader of what you have accomplished.
▪ To remind the reader of the nature of these two choices they are repeated below.
▪ The purpose of the conclusion is to remind the reader of what you have accomplished during the essay.
▪ In a critical article written several years ago, Townsend concluded by reminding his readers what Tawney had written in 1913.
tell
▪ There is a pamphlet which tells the reader how to see Aarau in 45 minutes.
▪ It must tell the readers enough about your background to ensure that they read your resume.
▪ When you make an assertion, what you are doing is telling your reader something you think is true.
▪ Perhaps you could tell our readers a little about your early life?
▪ Only Diana's deep sense of patriotic duty made her agree to the arrangement, it told its readers.
▪ It tells readers to circulate the letter widely.
▪ I hope McCarthy will discover them, and tell your readers about them and their students.They make a better and inspiring story.
write
▪ But it is the poetic strength and simplicity of the writing that seduces the reader.
▪ Sad, but true: in business writing, anyway, readers care more about themselves than about you.
▪ From tea maker to charity supporter Dear Editor I am writing to make readers aware of the registered charity.
▪ A series of close-up drawings of parts of animals, along with written clues, invite readers to guess the animal.
▪ I have written several series of readers, now only obtainable in libraries.
▪ It is a serious systematic account written for the general reader, professional without being technical.
▪ So here, in effect, is a From Rock To Jazz column written by its readers!
▪ You can not do this without projecting the effect of what you write upon an imagined reader.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All Ms Atwood's readers will be delighted with her latest book.
▪ At this point in the novel, the reader still does not know the hero's true identity.
▪ Her books appeal especially to women readers.
▪ The average reader of science-fiction is young and male.
▪ The magazine needs to attract more young readers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Many readers will also be familiar with demonstrations of production of electric power by tapping the energy of winds and tides.
▪ Obviously, what the poet communicates to the reader in this poem is a complex reflection of her current mental state.
▪ Scientists are still not certain about this in spite of what the reader might believe.
▪ Seitz asks readers if they could imagine Ben Hogan or Arnold Palmer ever going to a sports psychologist.
▪ Share your thoughts with other readers by writing to Anne at Machine Knitting Monthly.
▪ We leave it to the reader to appreciate what this will mean in due course, as work on oneself progresses.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reader

Reader \Read"er\ (r[=e]d"[~e]r), n. [AS. r[=ae]dere.]

  1. One who reads. Specifically:

    1. One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church.

    2. (University of Oxford, Eng.) One who reads lectures on scientific subjects.
      --Lyell.

    3. A proof reader.

    4. One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.

  2. One who reads much; one who is studious.

  3. A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reader

Old English rædere "person who reads aloud to others; lector; scholar; diviner, interpreter," agent noun from rædan (see read (v.)). Compare Dutch rader "adviser," Old High German ratari "counselor." Old English fem. form was rædistre.

Wiktionary
reader

n. 1 A person who reads a publication. 2 A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience. 3 A proofreader. 4 (context chiefly British English) A university lecturer below a professor. 5 Any device that reads something. 6 A book of exercises to accompany a textbook. 7 A literary anthology. 8 A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service. 9 A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.

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WordNet
reader

  1. n. a person who enjoys reading

  2. someone who contracts to receive and pay for a certain number of issues of a publication [syn: subscriber]

  3. a person who can read; a literate person

  4. someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication [syn: reviewer, referee]

  5. someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections [syn: proofreader]

  6. someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: lector]

  7. a public lecturer at certain universities [syn: lector, lecturer]

  8. one of a series of texts for students learning to read

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Gazetteer
Reader, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 82
Housing Units (2000): 43
Land area (2000): 2.340617 sq. miles (6.062169 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.340617 sq. miles (6.062169 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58400
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 33.752444 N, 93.099569 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71726
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Reader, AR
Reader
Wikipedia
Reader (liturgy)

In some Christian churches, the reader is responsible for reading aloud excerpts of the scripture at a liturgy. In early Christian times, the reader was of particular value due to the rarity of literacy.

Reader (academic rank)

The title of reader in the United Kingdom and some universities in the Commonwealth of Nations, for example India, Australia and New Zealand, denotes an appointment for a senior academic with a distinguished international reputation in research or scholarship.

Reader

Reader can mean a person who is reading a text, or a basal reader, a book used to teach reading. It may also refer to:

Reader (Christian Science Church)

A Reader in a Christian Science church is a member of the congregation who has been elected to serve in one of two positions responsible for church services. Each week's sermon in Christian Science churches is outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, prepared months in advance, and is the same in all Christian Science churches, worldwide. A lay church, it has no clergy; rather, the sermons consist of passages from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, are studied as lessons during the week and are read aloud to the congregation on the Sunday following.

Reader (Inns of Court)

A Reader in one of the Inns of Court in London was originally a senior barrister of the Inn who was elected to deliver a lecture or series of lectures on a particular legal topic. Two Readers (known as Lent and Autumn Readers) would be elected annually to serve a one-year term.

Lincoln's Inn became formally organised as a place of legal education thanks to a decree in 1464, which required a Reader to give lectures to the law students there.

By 1569 at Gray's Inn there had been Readers for more than a century, and before the rise of the Benchers they formed the governing body of the Inn.

Reader (surname)

Reader is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include the following:

  • Brian Reader (born 1989), Arena football quarterback
  • Colin Reader (born ?), English geologist
  • Eddi Reader (born 1959), Scottish singer
  • Felix Reader (1850–1911), German-born Australian chemist and amateur botanist
  • Francis Reader (born 1965), Scottish musician, band-member of "The Trash Can Sinatras"
  • Ralph Reader (1903–1982), British director and producer
  • Richard Reader Harris (KC) (1847–1909), English barrister and Pentecostalist
  • Richard Reader Harris (politician) (1913–2009), MP, English politician
  • Ted Reader, Canadian chef
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Usage examples of "reader".

Hotel, and has been attended by the most happy results, yet the cases have presented so great a diversity of abnormal features, and have required so many variations in the course of treatment, to be met successfully, that we frankly acknowledge our inability to so instruct the unprofessional reader as to enable him to detect the various systemic faults common to this ever-varying disease, and adjust remedies to them, so as to make the treatment uniformly successful.

He therefore resolved immediately to acquaint him with the fact which we have above slightly hinted to the reader.

She now first felt a sensation to which she had been before a stranger, and which, when she had leisure to reflect on it, began to acquaint her with some secrets, which the reader, if he doth not already guess them, will know in due time.

Here, reader, it may be necessary to acquaint thee with some matters, which, if thou dost know already, thou art wiser than I take thee to be.

To prevent, therefore, any such suspicions, so prejudicial to the credit of an historian, who professes to draw his materials from nature only, we shall now proceed to acquaint the reader who these people were, whose sudden appearance had struck such terrors into Partridge, had more than half frightened the postboy, and had a little surprized even Mr.

I must now make my readers acquainted with the sort of life we were at that time leading in Corfu.

I certainly did not act towards them with a true sense of honesty, but if the reader to whom I confess myself is acquainted with the world and with the spirit of society, I entreat him to think before judging me, and perhaps I may meet with some indulgence at his hands.

In the ensuing chapter the reader will become more fully acquainted with my fresh conquest.

I left Russia with the actress Valville, and I must here tell the reader how I came to make her acquaintance.

But the reader who recollects the class of texts adduced a little while since will remember that an opposite conclusion was as unequivocally drawn from them.

Nevertheless, I owe it to myself to tell my readers that my pleasure was too pure to have in it any admixture of vice.

The reason for this is that a repetition of the adverbial form down a page or two quickly attracts attention to itself, and the reader will have lost the sense of imagined experience through a mannerism of style.

The advertisement also gave the reader the specifications of the product-measurements, accessories and price.

Typically readers simply circle a number that corresponds to an advertiser, and the publication forwards the cards to the company, which can follow up with a phone contact or by sending requested literature.

The best illustration of this is outdoor advertising, where we literally have a few seconds to gain or lose the reader.