different between reading vs explanation
reading
English
Etymology
From read +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?d'?ng, IPA(key): /??i?d??/, [??i????], /??idi?/, [??i?i?]
- Rhymes: -i?d??
Verb
reading
- present participle of read
Noun
reading (countable and uncountable, plural readings)
- The process of interpreting written language.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- 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.
- He noted that fine dust readings have been higher in Seoul than in Beijing recently.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- a poetry reading.
- An interpretation.
- a reading of the current situation.
- Something to read; reading material.
- The extent of what one has read.
- He's a man of good reading.
- (legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- 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
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explanation
English
Alternative forms
- explaination (misspelling or obsolete spelling)
Etymology
From Latin explanatio (“an explanation, interpretation”), from explanare (“explain”); see explain.
Morphologically explain +? -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??kspl??ne???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
explanation (countable and uncountable, plural explanations)
- The act or process of explaining.
- The explanation was long and drawn-out.
- Something that explains, makes understandable.
- An explanation for the UFO sightings was easily found.
- A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.
Synonyms
- (act or process of explaining): clarification; elucidation; elaboration; explaining; femsplaining (pej., particularly by a feminist to a man); mansplaining, mansplanation (pej., particularly by a man to a woman)
Related terms
- explain
- explanatory
- explicative
- explicator
- explicatory
Translations
Further reading
- explanation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- explanation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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