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Entry 8 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Reading

/(rēd"ĭng)/ · Read·ing · IPA /ˈɹiːdɪŋ/
01 n. The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
  1. 1.
    The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
  2. 2.
    Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
  3. 3.
    A lecture or prelection; public recital.
    “The Jews had their weekly readings of the law.” — Hooker.
  4. 4.
    The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
  5. 5.
    Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.[Cant]
  6. 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.
02 a. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
  1. 1.
    Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
  2. 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.