Usually means: Interpreting text to extract meaning.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word reading:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reading, reading: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Reading, reading: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Reading, reading: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reading: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Reading, reading: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reading, reading, reading: Wordnik
  7. reading: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Reading, reading: Wiktionary
  9. reading: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reading: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reading: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Reading, reading: Dictionary.com
  13. Reading: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. reading: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Reading (HM Prison), Reading (UK Parliament constituency), Reading (activity), Reading (borough), Reading (computer), Reading (disambiguation), Reading (legislature), Reading (process), Reading, The Reading (Manet): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Reading: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reading: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reading: Rhymezone
  19. reading: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reading: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. reading: Free Dictionary
  22. reading: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Reading: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. reading: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. Reading: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reading: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Reading (activity), reading: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reading (activity), Reading (technical), reading: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Reading: Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Reading (activity), reading: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Reading: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  4. reading: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reading, re.ading: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. reading: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

(Note: See read as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The process of interpreting written language.
noun:  The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
noun:  A value indicated by a measuring device.
noun:  An event at which written material is read aloud.
noun:  An interpretation.
noun:  (linguistics) A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
noun:  Something to read; reading material.
noun:  The extent of what one has read.
noun:  (politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
noun:  A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
noun:  (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
noun:  (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A large town in Berkshire, England.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A city in Kansas.
noun:  A town in Massachusetts.
noun:  A city in Michigan.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Nobles County, Minnesota.
noun:  A town in New York.
noun:  A city in Hamilton County, Ohio.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A town in Vermont.
noun:  A number of townships, listed under Reading Township.
noun:  A small town in Saint James parish, Jamaica.

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