Collins English-English Dictionary

reading ['riːdɪŋ]

1. 1. n the act of a person who reads

2. 2. n (as modifier)

   a reading room

   a reading lamp

3. 3. n ability to read

4. 4. n (as modifier)

   the reading public

   a child of reading age

5. 5. n any matter that can be read; written or printed text

6. 6. n a public recital or rendering of a literary work

7. 7. n the form of a particular word or passage in a given text, esp where more than one version exists

8. 8. n an interpretation, as of a piece of music, a situation, or something said or written

9. 9. n knowledge gained from books

   a person of little reading

10. 10. n a measurement indicated by a gauge, dial, scientific instrument, etc

11. 11. n [parliamentary procedure] the formal recital of the body or title of a bill in a legislative assembly in order to begin one of the stages of its passage

12. 12. n one of the three stages in the passage of a bill through a legislative assembly - See first reading second reading third reading

13. 13. n the formal recital of something written, esp a will