reader

«reader» in Mova's judaism dictionary: a person who reads, or who is reading a book, a paper or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a reader, readers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A reader is a person who reads, or who is reading a book, a paper or a story. tree →

2) A book used to learn to read, often with short easy stories. tree →

3) A machine or app that reads something, like a card reader or an e-reader. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used at school: "She is a good reader." Teachers talk to the reader of a story; writers think about their reader. Phrases: "keen reader", "early reader", "e-reader", "card reader", "mind reader".

examples

• Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• Interested readers can check the 1562 Mantua edition for themselves through the digital archives of the National Library of Israel: nli.org.il/he/books/NNLALEPH990012793690205171/NLI. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• I therefore hope that the candid reader will consider the great difficulties I had to overcome in this still unbeaten way of the ancient Jewish spiritual region, and will receive with indulgence this new contribution to archaeological knowledge. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• She is a fast reader. tree →
• The author wants the reader to feel scared. tree →
• Our class reader is about a lost dog. tree →
• My dad reads books on his e-reader. tree →
• Tap your card on the card reader. tree →
• Are you a mind reader? That's what I was thinking! tree →
• Young readers will enjoy this book. tree →
• Now, reader, time what happened by your watch. tree →

note

Countable. Made from read + -er (the person who does it). Related: reading, readership.

In the corpora

• Example: in a café in Toronto, Mum taps her phone on the reader and the coffee is paid in a second.
• «Sources close to» someone are people a newspaper does not name, so their claims cannot be checked by the reader.
• It was reported that AI-made books were sold online under real authors' names, harming authors and readers.
• Hooke's book Micrographia amazed readers with huge drawings of fleas and lice.
• Fluent readers still use phonics, fast and silently, and slow down to it when they meet a hard new word.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «reader» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.