reading

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of read

Noun

• The process of interpreting written language.
• The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
• A value indicated by a measuring device.
• An event at which written material is read aloud.
• An interpretation.
• Something to read; reading material.
• The extent of what one has read.
• One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
• A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.

Origin

• From read + -ing.