Definition of Reading

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Reading

of Read

The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.

Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

A lecture or prelection; public recital.

The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.

Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.

An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.

Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

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Reading Quotations

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Mohandas Gandhi

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Reading Translations

reading in French is lisant, explication, lecture
reading in German is lesend, Lesung {f}, lese, Ablesung {f}
reading in Italian is esegesi, letta
reading in Spanish is lectura, leyendo

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