reading

The act or activity of one that reads.

The act or practice of rendering aloud written or printed matter.

An official or public recitation of written material.

The specific form of a particular passage in a text.

The distinctive interpretation of a work of performing art given by the person or persons performing it.

An interpretation or appraisal.

Written or printed material.

The information indicated by a gauge or graduated instrument.

The act of interpreting; interpretation; exposition, as of a riddle or dream; interpretation of signs, marks, or the like; a rendering or discovery of what is signified by the state or marking of an instrument, by arbitrary signs of any kind, or by the existing condition or action of anything: as, the readings of a steam-indicator; a correct reading of the sky (as to weather), or of a person’s countenance or proceedings.