Reading

Definition

reading /'ri:dŋ/ n ၁။ [U] (က) စာဖတ္ျခင္းအမႈ။ be fond of reading ❍ reading matter (ie books, newspapers, etc) ❍ a reading-lamp/-light (ie one placed to help sb reading) ❍ have a good reading knowledge of French (ie understand written French well). (ခ) စာအုပ္၊ စာေပ။ heavy/light reading (eg for study/entertainment) ❍ Her articles make interesting reading. ၂။ [C] (တိုင္းတာေရး ကိရိယာ၌) ျပေသာပမာဏ။ take a thermometer reading. ၃။ [C] ခံယူခ်က္။ သေဘာထား။ a feminist/Marxist reading of a text ❍ What is your reading of the situation? ၄။ [C] (က) နားဆင္သူပရိသတ္ကို ကဗ်ာ၊ စာေပရြတ္ျပပြဲ။ a poetry-/play-reading ❍ readings from Dickens. (ခ) တရားဝင္ေၾကညာခ်က္။ the reading of a will/of marriage banns. (ဂ) သမၼာက်မ္းမွ ေကာက္ႏုတ္ဖတ္ရြတ္ျပျခင္း။ a reading from St John's gospel. ၅။ [C] ဥပေဒၾကမ္းတစ္ရပ္ကို ပါလီမန္က အတည္ျပဳရာတြင္ ျဖတ္သန္းရေသာ အဆင့္(၃)ဆင့္ အနက္ တစ္ဆင့္။ ❏ reading age n အသက္အရြယ္အလိုက္ ကေလးတစ္ေယာက္ ပ်မ္းမွ်စာဖတ္ႏိုင္မႈ အတိုင္းအတာႏွင့္ ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ခ်က္အရ လူ တစ္ေယာက္၏ ဖတ္ႏိုင္စြမ္းကို တိုင္းတာမႈ။ adults with a reading age of eight. ❏ reading-room n စာဖတ္ခန္း။

Examples

1. My little boy is having difficulty with his reading.
2. A test for assessing children’s reading skills
3. I haven’t done much reading lately.
4. [background reading] : Included in the book are suggestions for background reading.
5. This report is my bedtime reading at the moment.
6. [reading material/matter] : The prisoners have limited reading material.
7. We attended the reading of my uncle’s will.
8. [give a reading] : She is giving a poetry reading tonight.
9. This morning’s reading is from the Old Testament.
10. The magnetism in the rock could produce distorted compass readings.
11. A modern reading of Freud’s work