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read⋅er

  [ree-der]
–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, esp. 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, esp. 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.
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Origin:
bef. 1000; ME reder(e), redar(e), OE rǣdere. See read 1 , -er 1
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read

2  [red]
–adjective
having knowledge gained by reading (usually used in combination): a well-read person.
Origin:
1580–90; ptp. of read 1

optical scanning

 
–noun
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.

Origin:
1955–60
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read·er   (rē'dər)   
n.  

  1. One that reads.

  2. One who publicly recites literary works.

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

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

    3. A textbook of reading exercises.

    4. An anthology, especially a literary anthology.

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

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

    1. A textbook of reading exercises.

    2. An anthology, especially a literary anthology.

  7. A layperson or minor cleric who recites lessons or prayers in church services.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
reader

  1. n.
    a piece of paper with writing on it; a note; a prescription; an IOU. (Underworld.) : I got a reader for some morphine.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

read 
O.E. rædan (W.Saxon), redan (Anglian) "to explain, read, rule, advise" (related to ræd, red "advice"), from P.Gmc. *raedanan (cf. O.N. raða, O.Fris. reda, Du. raden, O.H.G. ratan, Ger. raten "to advise, counsel, guess"), from PIE base *rei- "to reason, count" (cf. Skt. radh- "to succeed, accomplish," Gk. arithmos "number amount," O.C.S. raditi "to take thought, attend to," O.Ir. im-radim "to deliberate, consider"). Connected to riddle via notion of "interpret." Words from this root in most modern Gmc. languages still mean "counsel, advise." Transference to "understand the meaning of written symbols" is unique to O.E. and (perhaps under Eng. influence) O.N. raða. Most languages use a word rooted in the idea of "gather up" as their word for "read" (cf. Fr. lire, from L. legere). Sense of "make out the character of (a person)" is attested from 1611. The noun meaning "an act of reading" is recorded from 1825. Read up "study" is from 1842; read-only in computer jargon is recorded from 1961. O.E. ræda "advise, counsel" is in the name of Anglo-Saxon king Æðelræd II (968-1016), lit. "good counsel," and in his epithet Unræd, usually rendered into Mod.Eng. as Unready, but really meaning "no-counsel." Rede "counsel" survived in poetic usage to 17c. An attempted revival by Scott (19c.) failed, though it is used in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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