reader

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 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.

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.

noun

1. a person who reads
2. a person who is fond of reading
3. 1. mainly Britishat a university, a member of staff having a position between that of a senior lecturer and a professor
   2. USa 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 British another word for cantor (def. 1)

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.