Word Meanings - READING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: READING

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. 6. An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer. Reading of a bill , its normal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of READING)

• Construction
• Composition
• fabrication
• explanation
• rendering
• erection
• fabric
• edifice
• reading
• understanding
• interpretation
• view
• Literature
• Lore
• erudition
• study
• learning
• attainment
• scholarship
• literary works

Related words: (words related to READING)

• READ
  1. To give advice or counsel. 2. To tell; to declare. Spenser. 3. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document. So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and
• READILY
  1. In a ready manner; quickly; promptly. Chaucer. 2. Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully. How readily we wish time spent revoked! Cowper.
• SCHOLARSHIP
  1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. 2. Literary education. Any other house of scholarship. Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar;
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• STUDY
  1. To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages. 2. To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature. Study thyself; what rank
• EXPLANATION
  1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• READERSHIP
  The office of reader. Lyell.
• READER
  1. One who reads. Specifically: One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church. One who reads lectures on scientific subjects. Lyell. A proof reader. One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.
• READJOURN
  To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.
• READJUST
  To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
• FABRICATE
  1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. 2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens. 3. To invent and form; to forge; to
• READABILITY
  The state of being readable; readableness.
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• FABRICATOR
  One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes. The fabricator of the works of Ossian. Mason.
• READMIT
  To admit again; to give entrance or access to again. Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to readmit the suppliant. Milton.
• ATTAINMENT
  1. The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts. The attainment of every desired object. Sir W. Jones. 2. That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; , mental
• UNDERSTANDING
  1. The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation. 2. An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• STAR-READ
  Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy. Which in star-read were wont have best insight. Spenser.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• INFABRICATED
  Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• DEEP-READ
  Profoundly book-learned. "Great writers and deep-read men." L'Estrange.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• DOUBLETHREADED
  Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of