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read·er

(rē′dər)

1. A person who reads, especially:

a. A person who regularly reads certain material: a reader of crime novels.

b. See lay reader.

c. A person employed by a publisher to read and evaluate manuscripts.

d. One who corrects printers' proofs; a proofreader.

e. A teaching assistant who reads and grades examination papers.

2. Chiefly British A university teacher, especially one ranking next below a professor.

a. A textbook of reading exercises.

b. An anthology, especially a literary anthology.

4. Any of various devices that read or retrieve data from a storage device or credit card.

5. See e-reader.

6. readers Glasses that are used primarily for reading.

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reader

(ˈriːdə)

1. a person who reads

2. a person who is fond of reading

3. (Education)

a. chiefly Brit at a university, a member of staff having a position between that of a senior lecturer and a professor

b. US a teaching assistant in a faculty who grades papers, examinations, etc, on behalf of a professor

4. (Education)

a. a book that is part of a planned series for those learning to read

b. a standard textbook, esp for foreign-language learning

5. a person who reads aloud in public

6. (Journalism & Publishing) a person who reads and assesses the merit of manuscripts submitted to a publisher

7. (Journalism & Publishing) a person employed to read proofs and indicate errors by comparison with the original copy; proofreader

8. (Anglicanism) short for lay reader

9. (Roman Catholic Church) short for lay reader

10. (Judaism) Judaism chiefly Brit another word for cantor¹

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

read•er

(ˈri dər)

n.

1. one who reads.

2. a schoolbook for instruction in reading.

3. a book of collected writings; anthology.

a. a person employed to evaluate manuscripts for publication, theatrical production, etc.

b. a proofreader.

5. a person authorized to read the lessons, Bible, etc., in a church service.

6. a lecturer or instructor, esp. in some British universities.

7. an assistant to a professor, who grades examinations, papers, etc.

8. a person who interprets tea leaves, dreams, etc., to predict future events.

[before 1000]

reader

A member of the teaching staff at a British university who is senior to a lecturer but junior to a professor.

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Noun	1.	reader - a person who enjoys reading bookworm - someone who spends a great deal of time reading bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
	2.	reader - someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication subscriber customer, client - someone who pays for goods or services
	3.	reader - a person who can read; a literate person decipherer - a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text literate, literate person - a person who can read and write map-reader - a person who can read maps; "he is a good map-reader" skimmer - a rapid superficial reader
	4.	reader - someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication reviewer, referee critic - anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something scanner - someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
	5.	reader - someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections proofreader pressman, printer - someone whose occupation is printing
	6.	reader - someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church lector clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend - a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church Holy Order, Order - (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order"
	7.	reader - a public lecturer at certain universities lecturer, lector educator, pedagog, pedagogue - someone who educates young people
	8.	reader - one of a series of texts for students learning to read school text, schoolbook, text edition, textbook, text - a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy" McGuffey Eclectic Readers - readers that combined lessons in reading with moralistic messages

reader

noun book lover, bookworm, bibliophile, book reader, book collector Thanks to that job I became an avid reader.

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Translations

أحد القُرّاءقارئقَارِئكِتاب قِراءَه

čtenář-kačítanka

læserlæreboglæsebog

Leser Lesebuch

αναγνώστης επίκουρος

lector libro de lectura

lukija

lecteur

čitateljčitateljicačitalac

olvasóolvasókönyv

lesandilestrarbók

lettore sillabario docente

読者

독자

читатель читательский

čítankačitateľ

bralecpredavatelj

läsare

ผู้อ่าน

okuyucuokuma kitabıokuyan kimse

độc giả

读者读本

reader

[ˈriːdəʳ] N

1. (= person who reads) → lector(a) m/f; (in library) → usuario/a m/f
he's a great reader → lee mucho, es muy aficionado a la lectura
I'm not much of a reader → leo poco, no me interesan mucho los libros
see also lay ³

2. (also publisher's reader) → lector(a) m/f
see also proofreader

3. (Univ) → profesor(a) m/f adjunto/a

4. (= schoolbook) (to teach reading) → libro m de lectura; (= anthology) → antología f

5. (= machine) → máquina f lectora, aparato m lector
see also microfiche, optical

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

reader

[ˈriːdə^r] n

[magazine, book, paper] → lecteur/trice m/f

(= book) → livre m de lecture

(British) (at university) → maître m de conférences

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

reader

→ Leser(in) m(f); publisher’s reader → Lektor(in) m(f)

(Brit Univ) → ˜ Dozent(in) m(f)

(= schoolbook) → Lesebuch nt; (to teach reading) → Fibel f; (= foreign language text) → Text m, → Lektüre f; (= anthology) → Sammelband m; a reader in the Classics → eine Klassikersammlung; “first French reader” → „Französisches Lesebuch für Anfänger“

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

reader

[ˈriːdəʳ] n

a. → lettore/trice
she's a great reader → adora leggere

b. (Brit, ZZZ) (Univ) → (docente m/f) incaricato/a

c. (book) → libro di lettura; (anthology) → antologia

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

read

(riːd) – past tense, past participle read (red) – verb

1. to look at and understand (printed or written words or other signs). Have you read this letter?; Can your little girl read yet?; Can anyone here read Chinese?; to read music; I can read (= understand without being told) her thoughts/mind.

2. to learn by reading. I read in the paper today that the government is going to cut taxes again.

3. to read aloud, usually to someone else. I read my daughter a story before she goes to bed; I read to her before she goes to bed.

4. to pass one's time by reading books etc for pleasure etc. I don't have much time to read these days.

5. to study (a subject) at a university etc.

6. to look at or be able to see (something) and get information from it. I can't read the clock without my glasses; The nurse read the thermometer.

7. to be written or worded; to say. His letter reads as follows: `Dear Sir, ...'

8. (of a piece of writing etc) to make a (good, bad etc) impression. This report reads well.

9. (of dials, instruments etc) to show a particular figure, measurement etc. The thermometer reads –5C.

10. to (cause a word, phrase etc to) be replaced by another, eg in a document or manuscript. There is one error on this page – For `two yards', read `two metres'; `Two yards long' should read `two metres long'.

noun

the act, or a period, of reading. I like a good read before I go to sleep.

ˈreadable adjective

(negative unreadable).

1. easy or pleasant to read. I don't usually enjoy poetry but I find these poems very readable.

2. able to be read. Your handwriting is scarcely readable.

ˈreadableness noun

ˌreadaˈbility noun

ˈreader noun

1. a person who reads books, magazines etc. He's a keen reader.

2. a person who reads a particular newspaper, magazine etc. The editor asked readers to write to him with their opinions.

3. a reading-book, especially for children or for learners of a foreign language. a Latin reader.

ˈreadership noun

the (number of) people who read a newspaper, magazine etc.

ˈreading noun

1. the act of reading.

2. the reading of something aloud, as a (public) entertainment. a poetry reading.

3. the ability to read. The boy is good at reading.

4. the figure, measurement etc on a dial, instrument etc. The reading on the thermometer was –5 C.

reading-

1. for the purpose of reading. reading-glasses; a reading-room in a library.

2. for learning to read. a reading-book.

ˈreading material noun

a list of books, stories, articles etc that need to be read for one's studies.

ˈreading matter noun

something written for others to read (eg books, newspapers, letters). There's a lot of interesting reading matter in our local library.

ˈread-out – plural ˈread-outs – noun

data produced by a computer, eg on magnetic or paper tape.

read between the lines

to look for or find information (eg in a letter) which is not actually stated.

read off

to read from a dial, instrument etc. The engineer read off the temperatures one by one.

read on

to continue to read; to read further. He paused for a few moments, and then read on.

read out

to read aloud. Read out the answers to the questions.

read over/through

to read from beginning to end. I'll read through your manuscript, and let you know if I find any mistakes.

reader

→ قَارِئ čtenář læser Leser αναγνώστης lector lukija lecteur čitatelj lettore 読者 독자 lezer leser czytelnik leitor читатель läsare ผู้อ่าน okuyucu độc giả 读者

reader

n. lector, lectora.

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THE main purpose of this story is to appeal to the reader's interest in a subject which has been the theme of some of the greatest writers, living and dead -- but which has never been, and can never be, exhausted, because it is a subject eternally interesting to all mankind.

From that point, all the main events of the story are purposely foreshadowed before they take place -- my present design being to rouse the reader's interest in following the train of circumstances by which these foreseen events are brought about.

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IN WHICH THE AUTHOR ANTICIPATES DISCONTENT ON THE PART OF HIS READER

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My object in writing the following pages was not simply to amuse the Reader; neither was it to gratify my own taste, nor yet to ingratiate myself with the Press and the Public: I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

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As we do not disdain to borrow wit or wisdom from any man who is capable of lending us either, we have condescended to take a hint from these honest victuallers, and shall prefix not only a general bill of fare to our whole entertainment, but shall likewise give the reader particular bills to every course which is to be served up in this and the ensuing volumes.

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The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed, and on this account we must be content to leave the reader to pass his own opinion upon the ensuing sheet, and take it just as he pleases.

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In very many published narratives no little degree of attention is bestowed upon dates; but as the author lost all knowledge of the days of the week, during the occurrence of the scenes herein related, he hopes that the reader will charitably pass over his shortcomings in this particular.

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The reader should grasp clearly the date at which this book was written.

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And each of those stories, to mean something, must justify itself in its own way to the conscience of each successive reader.

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"Thus Spake Zarathustra" is taken home; the reader, who perchance may know no more concerning Nietzsche than a magazine article has told him, tries to read it and, understanding less than half he reads, probably never gets further than the second or third part,--and then only to feel convinced that Nietzsche himself was "rather hazy" as to what he was talking about.

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There was one thing the children demanded which I found it impossible to do in this present book: they bade me introduce Toto, Dorothy's little black dog, who has many friends among my readers. But you will see, when you begin to read the story, that Toto was in Kansas while Dorothy was in California, and so she had to start on her adventure without him.

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Yet before I proceed to my legitimate subject some few final remarks will no doubt be expected by my Readers upon those pillars and mainstays of the Constitution of Flatland, the controllers of our conduct and shapers of our destiny, the objects of universal homage and almost of adoration: need I say that I mean our Circles or Priests?