reader

[ree-der] /ˈri dər/
noun
1.
a person who reads.
2.
a schoolbook for instruction and practice in reading:
a second-grade reader.
3.
a book of collected or assorted writings, especially when related in theme, authorship, or instructive purpose; anthology:
a Hemingway reader; a sci-fi reader.
4.
a person employed to read and evaluate manuscripts offered for publication.
5.
a proofreader.
6.
a person who reads or recites before an audience; elocutionist.
7.
a person authorized to read the lessons, Bible, etc., in a church service.
8.
a lecturer or instructor, especially in some British universities:
to be appointed reader in English history.
9.
an assistant to a professor, who grades examinations, papers, etc.
10.
Computers. a device that reads data, programs, or control information from an external storage medium for transmission to main storage.
Compare card reader, optical character reader.
11.
a machine or device that projects or enlarges a microform image on a screen or other surface for reading.
12.
a playing card marked on its back so that the suit or denomination of the card can be identified.
13.
Library Science. the user of a library; library patron.
Origin
before 1000; Middle English reder(e), redar(e), Old English rǣdere. See read1, -er1
Related forms
nonreader, noun
subreader, noun
underreader, noun

optical scanning

noun
1.
the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
Compare optical character recognition.
Origin
1955-60
Examples from the web for reader
  • From the time the reader makes a selection, the entire transaction can be completed within minutes.
  • The reader doesn't care what you went through to produce your work.
  • One reader had hoped that the new book would be a road map for realizing for-profit education's possibilities.
  • It does everything you would expect a news reader to do, and it does it well.
  • The reader is able then to see immediately the footnote and gain that info quickly instead of having to turn back in pages.
  • They also involve the relationship the reader has to them.
  • The object of treating each topic in a paragraph by itself is, of course, to aid the reader.
  • Clever writers who start fashions in the literary world should take account of this secrecy of the reader's position.
  • He need have had no fear, nor have offered his reader any apology.
  • They elude the ordinary reader by their abstraction and delicacy of distinction, but they are far from vague.
British Dictionary definitions for reader

reader

/ˈriːdə/
noun
1.
a person who reads
2.
a person who is fond of reading
3.
  1. (mainly Brit) at a university, a member of staff having a position between that of a senior lecturer and a professor
  2. (US) a teaching assistant in a faculty who grades papers, examinations, etc, on behalf of a professor
4.
  1. a book that is part of a planned series for those learning to read
  2. a standard textbook, esp for foreign-language learning
5.
a person who reads aloud in public
6.
a person who reads and assesses the merit of manuscripts submitted to a publisher
7.
a person employed to read proofs and indicate errors by comparison with the original copy; proofreader
8.
short for lay reader
9.
(Judaism, mainly Brit) another word for cantor (sense 1)
Word Origin and History for reader
n.

Old English rædere "person who reads aloud to others; lector; scholar; diviner, interpreter," agent noun from rædan (see read (v.)). Cf. Dutch rader "adviser," Old High German ratari "counselor." Old English fem. form was rædistre.

Slang definitions & phrases for reader

reader

Related Terms

mitt-reader