different between reading vs bifocals

English

Etymology

From read +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?d'?ng, IPA^(key): /??i?d??/, [??i????], /??idi?/, [??i?i?]
• Rhymes: -i?d??

Verb

reading

1. present participle of read

Noun

reading (countable and uncountable, plural readings)

1. The process of interpreting written language.

2. The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
3. A value indicated by a measuring device.

   a speedometer reading.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     He noted that fine dust readings have been higher in Seoul than in Beijing recently. 

4. An event at which written material is read aloud.

   a poetry reading.

5. An interpretation.

   a reading of the current situation.

6. Something to read; reading material.
7. The extent of what one has read.

   He's a man of good reading.

8. (legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
9. A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.

   readings from the Bible

Derived terms

• poetry reading
• reading material

Translations

Anagrams

• Dearing, dearing, deraign, gradine, grained, inraged

English

Etymology

From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.

Noun

bifocals pl (plural only)

1. Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.

Related terms

• bifocal
• trifocals

Translations