(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Reading is the activity of ~ books.
I have always loved ~.
...young people who find ~ and writing difficult.
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2.
A ~ is an event at which poetry or extracts from books are read to an audience.
...a poetry ~.
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3.
Your ~ of a word, text, or situation is the way in which you understand or interpret it.
My ~ of her character makes me feel that she was too responsible a person to do those things...
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4.
The ~ on a measuring device is the figure or measurement that it shows.
The gauge must be giving a faulty ~.
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5.
In the British Parliament or the US Congress, a ~ is one of the three stages of introducing and discussing a new bill before it can be passed as law.
The bill is expected to pass its second ~ with a comfortable majority.
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6.
If you say that a book or an article makes interesting ~ or makes for interesting ~, you mean that it is interesting to read.
The list of drinks, a dozen pages long, makes fascinating ~...
PHRASE: V inflects