Meaning of reader | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who reads.
2. reading
3. A surname
4. A person who reads a publication.
5. reading aloud to other people
6. A census-designated place in Nevada County and Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States.
7. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
8. reader (a person who reads)
9. An unincorporated community in Western Mound Township, Macoupin County, Illinois, United States.
10. A proofreader.
11. reader (a person who reads a publication)
12. A census-designated place in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States, named after the Reader Run creek.
13. A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
14. A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
15. A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
    British
16. Any device that reads something.
17. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
18. An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
19. A literary anthology.
20. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
21. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
22. Reading glasses.
    in-plural
23. Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
    in-plural, slang
24. A wallet or pocketbook.
    obsolete, slang
25. At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.

Equivalents

Examples

“an early reader, a talented reader”

“10,000 weekly readers”

“In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.””

“They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.”

“"I am commissioned by the Queen to offer you the place of Italian reader; and I assure you the offer was made with many kind expressions of interest. You will enter upon the duties, which are almost nominal, immediately."”

“a card reader, a microfilm reader”

“The reMarkable PDF reader is really targeted at the digital writing market, rather than the digital reading market, though most serious e-readers support pens for annotations and signatures.”

“A quick search on Kaiser's website, there was nothing that talked about plate readers or a usage policy.”

“Appletons’ School Readers”

“A good bedtime reader should entertain and delight, and that's what I find in Girard Kent's The Boy Harleqin ^([sic]) and Other Stories.”

“LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.”

“Of the 150,000,000 decks of cards sold each year in America, Scarne estimates that 1 percent get marked at some point. Yet, as he discovered in his 1972 gambling survey, only 2 percent of average players have any idea of how to detect these "readers."”

“[…] Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind; / R was a Reader, with flimsies well lined; […]”

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