Definition of "reading"

reading¹

/ˈɹiːdɪŋ/

verb
1. present participle and gerund of read

reading²

/ˈɹiːdɪŋ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural readings
1. The process of interpreting written language.
2. The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
3. A value indicated by a measuring device.
  Quotations
  He noted that fine dust readings have been higher in Seoul than in Beijing recently. Audio (US)(file)
  2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
4. An event at which written material is read aloud.
5. An interpretation.
6. A spelling that intends to indicate the approximate pronunciation of a word from another language; a romanization, transcription, and/or transliteration.
  Quotations
  Recent reports from Taiwan (Formosa), although fragmentary, begin to give a picture of economic conditions following the conclusion of the war. Now officially referred to as Taiwan Province, the island's former Japanese administration is being replaced by Chinese officials with little change, at least as yet, in the administrative pattern. Although there is no indication that ideographs will be changed, Chinese readings rather than Japanese will be followed for place names. Taihoku, for example, will be read in our alphabet as Taipei. This city presumably will continue to be the capital of Taiwan.
  1946 February 16, “China”, in Foreign Commerce Weekly‎, volume XXII, number 7, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce, page 26, column 2
7. Something to read; reading material.
  Quotations
  2014, Jürgen Moltmann, edited by Margaret Kohl, Jürgen Moltmann: Collected Readings, Fortress Press.
8. The extent of what one has read.
9. (legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
10. A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
11. (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
12. (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.