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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reading
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a compass bearing/reading (=a direction shown by a compass)
▪ We took a compass bearing to ensure we were walking in the right direction.
a poetry reading (=when poems are read to people, usually by the writer)
▪ I used to like giving poetry readings.
a spelling/reading/listening test
▪ I didn’t do very well in the listening test.
compulsive reading/viewing
▪ ‘Gardening World’ is compulsive viewing for gardeners.
essential reading
▪ The journal is essential reading for doctors.
light reading
▪ It’s a really good book if you want a bit of light reading.
reading glasses (=for reading)
▪ She looked at him over the frames of her reading glasses.
reading/writing etc material(s)
▪ Videos often make good teaching material.
reading/writing skills
▪ Their reading skills are poor.
speed reading
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
▪ All this led Barth back to a closer reading of the Bible, and especially of Paul.
▪ Each side claims a closer reading than the other.
▪ This again is relevant to school tasks since it is near vision that is used for close work such as reading and writing.
▪ But a closer reading tells a different story.
▪ But a closer reading of the Gospels reveals a much more complex drama being enacted.
essential
▪ It's time to get Britain working again - essential reading for every voter.
▪ We think it's essential reading but then we would say that wouldn't we.
▪ Everyone knows that a Street Directory of Dublin is essential to the reading of joyce.
▪ Many thanks for a thoroughly useful newspaper which is essential reading.
▪ They are essential reading for child care lawyers who wish to represent their clients effectively in court.
▪ The latter half of the book should be essential reading for all chemists and engineers working on chemical plants.
▪ I have no hesitation in recommending this book as essential reading for all who are legitimately involved in this field.
further
▪ The book also has a useful appendix on further reading.
▪ However, one thing which the book lacks is any guide to further reading.
▪ The further reading in this area is enormous.
▪ Several good references are listed in the further reading, but you need not worry about them now.
▪ Teacher training colleges are also listed, as are books for further reading.
▪ A further set of readings come from chemically analysing soil samples collected from streams.
▪ Admittedly, after graduation, many students go no further in their reading and thinking.
interesting
▪ In the context of the £33 million earmarked for 20 City Technology Colleges, that figure makes interesting reading.
▪ The report I commissioned on you makes for interesting reading.
▪ A glance at the provisions of the Convention makes interesting reading.
▪ There was further very interesting reading in the U.S. golfing magazine.
▪ But here it is, all five foolscap pages, and it makes quite interesting reading.
▪ This, unlike the first one, makes interesting reading, and is referred to continually.
▪ His observations may make interesting reading.
▪ The guidance, when it appears, should make interesting reading.
light
▪ I heave an armchair into the kitchen, lay out some light reading, and prepare a flask of coffee.
▪ He appears to enjoy light reading.
▪ The cameraman is taking light readings and setting his lenses.
▪ They were very glad to borrow the few Penguin books we brought along with us, even though they are not particularly light reading.
▪ This book, however, seems firmly aimed at that omniscient 10 percent. Light reading, it is not.
open
▪ In each case the splices result in appropriate splice junctions and a single open reading frame.
▪ The three-letter abbreviations for the 659 amino acids encoded in the open reading frame beginning at nucleotide position 133 are also shown.
▪ This is based unashamedly on a system which will be familiar to students of Open University reading courses.
■ NOUN
books
▪ Grade a number of reading books.
▪ Leapor in many places feels compelled to defend the pleasure she takes in writing poetry and reading books.
▪ She sits in her bed-sitting-room-study reading books.
▪ They learn about disability by doing courses and reading books.
▪ The Secretary of State for Education and Science is keen on people reading books.
▪ In some traditional reading books there was a clear assumption that boys were leaders and girls were followers.
▪ She was always very quiet - reading books and pre-occupied by her kids.
frame
▪ In each case the splices result in appropriate splice junctions and a single open reading frame.
▪ The three-letter abbreviations for the 659 amino acids encoded in the open reading frame beginning at nucleotide position 133 are also shown.
▪ The reading frame is closed 15 codons upstream of this start site.
glass
▪ Theodora remained standing, polishing her reading glasses vigorously.
▪ He looked up, removed his reading glasses, then got to his feet and indicated the second sofa.
▪ You are well advised, when the Whitney Biennial comes along, to be sure to remember your reading glasses.
▪ Fifteen, if he needed to find his reading glasses.
▪ Then he put on his reading glasses again and this time it made some sense.
▪ He sent me there the other day to pick up his reading glasses.
map
▪ There were three tests on map reading.
▪ It reminds me of those half-houses which according to normal criteria of map reading shouldn't exist.
▪ Some knowledge of map reading is useful.
material
▪ It will need to have a ledge to support the reading material and strong clamps to hold pages in place are useful.
▪ By level 8, the reading material is as demanding as it can be.
▪ To list background reading material. 5.
▪ The Lawyers' Library in Appendix 4 gives details of these publications and other useful reading material.
▪ A spontaneous way to effect magnification is to bring reading material close to the eye.
▪ It provides a variety of reading material from newspapers and other authentic sources, which parallel and reinforce each story.
▪ Like the Prince, she requests and gathers together information and reading material on all of the subjects she has taken on.
▪ There is a hunger for reading material, for books of all kinds, educational and recreational.
matter
▪ I was grateful for the information you conveyed regarding Heather's reading matter on Rhodes.
▪ Thus the best libretto ever written for the best opera ever written is scarcely tolerable as reading matter.
▪ There were also other changes, such as in available reading matter.
▪ Armed with the knowledge gleaned from reading matter and known computer buffs I travelled far and wide.
▪ The noble Lord is not, you understand a personal friend of mine: just my current reading matter.
▪ An infra-red scanner winks its inflamed eye at him as he goes into the lounge in search of reading matter.
▪ Appropriately, it is the garbage people who bring me my reading matter.
▪ Before getting off the bed, Mungo scanned the books to see what reading matter Vic preferred.
poetry
▪ As audience he used occasionally to come to my poetry readings in the seventies and eighties.
▪ The commercial streets are filled with upscale shops, art galleries, outdoor cafes and bookstores where poetry readings are held.
▪ It was the internationalism of the 1965 poetry reading, cultural, post-Beat, off-beat, and art-oriented.
▪ Reception, Saturday, 6 to 9 p. m., with music, hosted bar and poetry readings.
▪ At the many poetry readings we set up for Andrei Voznesensky there were no protest interruptions.
▪ There were films to see and poetry readings to attend in small, smoky bars, all affordable for impoverished artists.
▪ The poetry reading at the institute.
▪ It's summer 1992, a poetry reading evening in a working men's club.
process
▪ For psychologists and educators concerned with the reading process or with the teaching of literacy, these insights marked a new beginning.
▪ Studies of eye movement during the reading process provide further evidence of the role of higher level knowledge.
▪ Textermination examines the fictionality of the novel from the point of view of the reading process.
▪ For this distinction to take place higher level knowledge must be affecting the reading process.
▪ Eye movement studies have also been used to demonstrate the role of syntactic knowledge in the reading process.
▪ This is largely because human readers use an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process.
▪ The reading process can however be conceptualized in other ways without necessarily abandoning a language-based position.
public
▪ And it became apparent that the general reading public was not only prepared, but positively eager, to listen.
▪ But the stories never swept the reading public off its feet the way the Sherlock Holmes tales did.
▪ Topics covered include news and feature writing, fiction, writing for children and for the new reading public.
▪ But would a publisher - or the reading public for that matter?
▪ Thus Ben Jonson on the simple-minded reading public of 1625.
▪ Popular literature appealing to the semi-educated proliferated, reflecting the growth of a reading public not unlike that of the contemporary West.
▪ Duncombe's poem was reprinted a number of times and thus kept Leapor's name before the reading public for several decades.
▪ He was fortunate in that his choice of subjects and his robust story-telling were perfectly in tune with his reading public.
skill
▪ The work will examine groups of children and adults differing in reading skill.
▪ The word-games reinforce spelling and reading skills, and encourage accuracy.
▪ This may also indicate preparatory drill in reading skills and the handling of information sources. 2.
▪ They shed much fresh light on the nature and development of reading skill.
▪ It is particularly useful at a stage when pupils have very limited reading skills.
▪ Develops intensive reading skills and reading for gist, gives practice in business vocabulary and revises grammatical structures.
speed
▪ As their reading speed increases, so does the excitement!
▪ Do you vary your reading speed and method accordingly? 2.
▪ One of these is that there will inevitably be widely different reading speeds.
▪ All students, however, can learn how to use their reading speed strategically.
▪ Adjust your reading speed and method accordingly. 7.
▪ Each of these has specific purposes, may require different reading speeds and demands a purposeful, critical attitude on your part.
▪ Count the number of words on those two pages and you will be able to calculate your reading speed.
▪ Flexibility in your reading speeds. 3.
■ VERB
develop
▪ Perhaps it sharpens and develops reading, decoding, and comprehension skills.
▪ Most 11-year-olds are not being encouraged to develop advanced reading skills; a small but significant number are illiterate.
▪ In addition, the Activity Book provides a stimulating range of tasks designed to develop reading, writing, and speaking skills.
▪ Teacher's notes give practical hints on developing reading skills, together with ideas for implementing play-reading in class.
▪ Beech's idea of consistent rules could be developed for even easier reading and learning.
▪ Objects are often excellent material to use with very young children, who have not yet developed reading and writing skills.
▪ Connections in Reading A &038; B encourage pre-intermediate students to read for pleasure and develop their reading skills.
enjoy
▪ Most students enjoy reading, but dislike having to write.
▪ Find enclosed the member's card for the Cool cats club and two newsletters! hope you enjoy reading!
▪ He enjoys reading and his main sporting interests are rugby and gaelic football.
▪ He appears to enjoy light reading.
▪ I do hope you enjoy reading them and have lots of fun trying out new ideas.
▪ Emma Lee lives in Liverpool and enjoys reading, handicraft and playing the keyboard.
▪ Lottie Crumbleholme is eight and enjoys reading and playing the piano.
▪ Most students say they enjoy reading.
give
▪ My brother was now traveling to several towns in Galicia, where he gave talks and readings from his work.
▪ Look, if you can't do sharing sums, give your readings to my assistant.
▪ However, that part of his brain may have been damaged and unable to give an accurate reading.
▪ Mr Bisset, assistant teacher at Port Ellen gave readings.
▪ He continued to give lectures, readings and radio talks.
▪ The pulses received are counted by the driving software and give a direct reading of the cursor's position on the screen.
▪ A problem was that most of the radiometer measurements gave low readings on the instrument's most sensitive scale.
make
▪ The bottom of the league makes worrying reading.
▪ The results so far make somewhat bemusing reading.
▪ In the context of the £33 million earmarked for 20 City Technology Colleges, that figure makes interesting reading.
▪ The report I commissioned on you makes for interesting reading.
▪ A glance at the provisions of the Convention makes interesting reading.
▪ Young Bruce's flirtation with Padstow lifeboat didn't make good reading.
▪ If this list of opponents to the film makes impressive reading, then it was soon to become even more so.
▪ The one thing Roy will definitely make a point of reading is innovations catalogues.
write
▪ Because of educational difficulties, many deaf people, though intelligent, have poor reading and writing skills.
▪ He often stopped reading or writing to stare into the distance, dreaming perhaps of some ambitious plan.
▪ He discusses the benefits for all learners of listening to, reading and writing poetry.
▪ It contains further reading, writing and listening exercises.
▪ In addition, the Activity Book provides a stimulating range of tasks designed to develop reading, writing, and speaking skills.
▪ The four key skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking will be tested at first and Second Level.
▪ Objects are often excellent material to use with very young children, who have not yet developed reading and writing skills.
▪ Time is passed by reading, writing, listening to music, playing cards, doing jigsaws, etc.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reading/printed etc matter
▪ Armed with the knowledge gleaned from reading matter and known computer buffs I travelled far and wide.
▪ But they also noted whether there was reading matter in the house.
▪ I was grateful for the information you conveyed regarding Heather's reading matter on Rhodes.
▪ The noble Lord is not, you understand a personal friend of mine: just my current reading matter.
▪ There were also other changes, such as in available reading matter.
▪ Thus the best libretto ever written for the best opera ever written is scarcely tolerable as reading matter.
▪ Typographer a specialist in the design of printed matter, and in particular the art of typography.
▪ Typography the design and planning of printed matter using type.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a poetry reading
▪ an energetic reading of Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony"
▪ Even a casual reading of the text gives you an idea of the theme.
▪ Handouts and additional reading will be provided in class.
▪ His hobbies include reading and hiking.
▪ My reading of the situation is that this conflict is likely to get worse over the next few months.
▪ Temperature readings were as cold as -2°.
▪ The children are separated into groups for reading.
▪ The electricity meter reading was much higher than I'd expected.
▪ We use atmospheric pressure readings from barometers to forecast the weather.
▪ What's George's reading of the situation at work?
▪ What's your reading of the latest trade figures?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Complicity between the two personae is betrayed by using the reading performed to justify the choice made.
▪ I fancy it comes from over reading, so I do as little as I can.
▪ It has crucial importance for the accommodative phase of reading progress.
▪ It was no good; reading at this moment in time was the last thing she felt like.
▪ Our reading today is about sharing.
▪ Sometimes the second reading, usually made from the Apostolic writings, had the same theme especially in Lent or Advent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reading

Read \Read\ (r[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Read (r[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reading.] [OE. reden, r[ae]den, AS. r[=ae]dan to read, advise, counsel, fr. r[=ae]d advice, counsel, r[=ae]dan (imperf. reord) to advise, counsel, guess; akin to D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. r[=a][eth]a, Goth. r[=e]dan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. r[=a]dh to succeed. [root]116. Cf. Riddle.]

  1. To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] See Rede.

    Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.
    --Tyndale.

  2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.

  3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.]

    But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
    --Spenser.

  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.

    Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille.
    --Chaucer.

    Well could he rede a lesson or a story.
    --Chaucer.

  5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.

    Who is't can read a woman?
    --Shak.

  6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.

    An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
    --Spenser.

    Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
    --Shak.

  7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.

    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.

Reading

Reading \Read"ing\, a.

  1. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

  2. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

    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.

Reading

Reading \Read"ing\ (r[=e]d"[i^]ng), 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.
    --Hooker.

  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.

    Reading of a bill (Legislation), its formal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Reading

county town of Berkshire, Old English Readingum (c.900), "(Settlement of) the family or followers of a man called *Read."

reading

Old English ræding, "a reading, the act of reading" either silent or aloud, "a passage or lesson," verbal noun; see read (v.)). Meaning "interpretation" is from mid-14c. (in reference to dreams). Meaning "a form of a passage of text" is from 1550s; that of "a public event featuring reading aloud" is from 1787.

Wiktionary
reading

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 English) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law. vb. (present participle of read English)

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WordNet
reading

  1. n. 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]

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Gazetteer
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
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
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
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
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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Wikipedia
Reading

The common noun reading (pronounced as ) may refer to:

  • Reading (process), the cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning ("reading a book" or "reading music")
    • obtaining information from devices such as sensors ("taking/obtaining (a) reading/readings")
  • Reading (computer), the act of a computer extracting data from a storage medium
  • Reading (legislature), the mechanism by which a bill is introduced to a legislature
  • Divination, gaining insight through interpretation of omens or supernatural indicators
  • Psychic reading, an attempt to discern information through clairvoyance

The proper noun Reading (pronounced as ) may refer to:

Reading (computer)

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 hard drive to be processed at a future date. Computers may read information from a variety of sources, such as magnetic storage, the Internet, or audio and video input ports.

A read cycle is the act of reading one unit of information (e.g. a byte). A read channel is an electrical circuit that transforms the physical magnetic flux changes into abstract bits. A read error occurs when the physical part of the process fails for some reason, such as dust or dirt entering the drive.

Reading can be abstracted to one of the main functions of a Turing machine.

Reading (UK Parliament constituency)

Reading was a parliamentary borough, and later a borough constituency, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It comprised the town of Reading in the county of Berkshire.

From 1295, as a parliamentary borough, Reading elected two members of parliament (MPs). When the parliamentary borough was replaced by a borough constituency in 1885, this representation was reduced to a single MP. The constituency was abolished in 1950, re-created in 1955, and finally abolished in 1974.

Reading (legislature)

A reading of a bill is a debate on the bill held before the general body of a legislature, as opposed to before a committee or other group. In the Westminster system, there are usually several readings of a bill among the stages it passes through before becoming law as an Act of Parliament. Some of these readings are usually formalities rather than substantive debates.

Reading (United States Baseball League)

Reading was one of 8 teams in the "outlaw" United States Baseball League based in Reading, Pennsylvania. The league folded after just over a month of play. Reading was the only team in the league without a nickname.

Reading (surname)

Reading is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Bertice Reading (1933–1991), American singer
  • Burnet Reading (1749–1838), English engraver
  • John Reading (disambiguation), several people of the name
  • Peter Reading (born 1956), English poet
  • Pierson B. Reading (1816–1868), American pioneer

Category:English-language surnames

Reading (MBTA station)

Reading is a commuter rail station in Reading, Massachusetts, United States, on the Haverhill/Reading Line of the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad, a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). It is located at Lincoln and High Streets on the western fringe of the town's central business district.

The station's historic depot building was built in 1870 to service the Boston and Maine Railroad and was the former terminus of the line before its extension to Haverhill. The MBTA purchased the Haverhill Line in 1973, intending to replace commuter rail service with extended Orange Line subway service between Oak Grove and Reading. This plan was rejected by riders who desired to retain commuter rail service. The second track was not rebuilt through the station when the outbound platform was built, so the inbound platform serves trains in both directions. Despite this limited capacity, Reading is the terminus for some local trains on the line.

Reading (process)

Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning ( reading comprehension). Reading is a means of language acquisition, communication, and of sharing information and ideas. Like all languages, it is a complex interaction between the text and the reader which is shaped by the reader’s prior knowledge, experiences, attitude, and language community which is culturally and socially situated. The reading process requires continuous practice, development, and refinement. In addition, reading requires creativity and critical analysis. Consumers of literature make ventures with each piece, innately deviating from literal words to create images that make sense to them in the unfamiliar places the texts describe. Because reading is such a complex process, it cannot be controlled or restricted to one or two interpretations. There are no concrete laws in reading, but rather allows readers an escape to produce their own products introspectively. This promotes deep exploration of texts during interpretation. Readers use a variety of reading strategies to assist with decoding (to translate symbols into sounds or visual representations of speech) and comprehension. Readers may use context clues to identify the meaning of unknown words. Readers integrate the words they have read into their existing framework of knowledge or schema ( schemata theory).

Other types of reading are not speech based writing systems, such as music notation or pictograms. The common link is the interpretation of symbols to extract the meaning from the visual notations or tactile signals (as in the case of Braille).

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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.