reading — OAT

reading

noun

1 a cursory reading of the financial pages:

perusal, study, scan, scanning, scrutiny;

browse (through), look (through), glance (through), leaf (through), flick (through), skim (through).

2 a man of wide reading:

learning, book learning, scholarship, education, erudition, knowledge (of literature).

3 readings from the Bible:

passage, lesson;

section, piece, selection;

recital, recitation.

4 a one-sided reading of the situation:

interpretation, construal, understanding, account, explanation, analysis, construction;

version;

informal take.

5 the reading on the gas meter:

record, figure, indication, readout, display, measurement.