Définition "reading" dans le dictionnaire Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus

reading (readings plural )

1 n-uncount Reading is the activity of reading books.
I have always loved reading.

2 n-count A reading is an event at which poetry or extracts from books are read to an audience.
...a poetry reading.

3 n-count Your reading of a word, text, or situation is the way in which you understand or interpret it.
My reading of her character makes me feel that she was too responsible a person to do those things...

4 n-count The reading on a measuring device is the figure or measurement that it shows.
The gauge must be giving a faulty reading.

5 n-count In the British Parliament or the US Congress, a reading 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 reading with a comfortable majority.

6 If you say that a book or an article makes interesting reading or makes for interesting reading, you mean that it is interesting to read.
♦ make/make for interesting/dull/depressing reading phrase
The list of drinks, a dozen pages long, makes fascinating reading...