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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Reading (0.01283 detik)
Found 4 items, similar to Reading.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: reading bacaan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: reading bacaan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: reading reading n 1: 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 ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: 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. [1913 Webster] Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] 2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle. [1913 Webster] 3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] But read how art thou named, and of what kin. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Well could he rede a lesson or a story. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. [1913 Webster] Who is't can read a woman? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. [1913 Webster] An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Reading \Read"ing\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading. [1913 Webster] 2. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading. [1913 Webster] 3. A lecture or prelection; public recital. [1913 Webster] The Jews had their weekly readings of the law. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 4. The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version. [1913 Webster] 5. Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering. [Cant] [1913 Webster] 6. An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer. [1913 Webster] Reading of a bill (Legislation), its formal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it. [1913 Webster]

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