n. 25B6; noun
a cursory reading of the financial pages : PERUSAL, study, scan, scanning; browse (through), look (through), glance (through), leaf (through), flick (through), skim (through).
a man of wide reading : (BOOK) LEARNING, scholarship, education, erudition.
readings from the Bible : PASSAGE, lesson; section, piece; recital, recitation.
my reading of the situation : INTERPRETATION, construal, understanding, explanation, analysis.
a meter reading : RECORD, figure, indication, measurement.