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reading

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Word definitions for reading in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Reading is an action performed by computers , to acquire data from a source and place it into their volatile memory for processing . For example, a computer may read information off a floppy disk and store it in random access memory to be placed on the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of interpreting written language. 2 The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device. 3 A value indicated by a measuring device. 4 A meeting where written material is read aloud. 5 An interpretation. 6 (cx legislature ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reading \Read"ing\ (r[=e]d"[i^]ng), n. The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read. Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading. A lecture or prelection; public recital. The Jews had their weekly ...

Usage examples of reading.

It seemed to Smith, upon reading the individual reports, that many of them would have been absolved before their cases got beyond the deputy level, so flimsy were the accusations made against them.

It matters not whether he is professional or amateur, so he is untouched by academicism and has not done so much reading or writing as to impair his mental digestion and his clarity of vision.

I must confess that I am only acquainted with the peculiarities of the male by theory and reading.

Sometimes personal messages were forwarded in multiple copies, by regular interstellar couriers, the service sometimes duplicating and reduplicating the message without reading it, and sending copies on to different places, as often happened when the exact location of the addressee was unknown.

David remembered reading of adipocere, fatty tissues changed chemically to waxy material, preserving bodies for decades.

On the motion for the second reading, which was moved on the 2nd of June, a debate was commenced, which continued by adjournment for two nights.

Accordingly, on the 12th of February, on the proposal of the second reading, government opposition was offered: the debate, after an adjournment, was resumed on the 15th, and continued through that day and the next, when the bill was thrown out by an overwhelming majority.

He checked the indexes and methodically began reading everything he could find about agnosia and amaurosis, with the uncomfortable impression of being an intruder in a field beyond his competence, the mysterious terrain of neurosurgery, about which he only had the vaguest notion.

There was aphasia, loss of speech, alexia, loss of reading, agraphia, loss of writing, and agnosia, loss of recognition.

The first album recorded was of the poet Charles Olson reading from his new book Maximus IV, V, VI, as well as parts of the Mayan Letters and other works.

Tuli Kupferberg, the percussionist with the Fugs, already had an album out of his readings from bizarre advertisements, and the remaining Fug, Ed Sanders, was down for a future poetry album.

Jonas resumed his reading aloud, Marc perched on a replacement stool and climbed down from time to time to add charcoal to the fire or make minute adjustments to the alembic, the contents of which seemed to change not at all.

According to the altazimuth readings the stars will not be more favorable to this thing for days.

In a storm, when the air pressure sank, you had to offset that drop against the altimetric reading, and very often it was a crude rule-of-thumb calculation.

Accustomed to reading nuances of speech and slight gestures of body language in order to survive with Amalgamated, Judit had picked up far more from that brief, inconclusive meeting than Viggers had actually said.