reader

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹiːdə/    美 /ˈɹidɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who reads.
    — an early reader, a talented reader
  2. A person who reads a publication.
    — 10,000 weekly readers
  3. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
  4. A proofreader.
  5. A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
    — They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.
  6. A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
    — "I am commissioned by the Queen to offer you the place of Italian reader; and I assure you the offer was made with many kind expressions of interest. You will enter upon the duties, which are almost nominal, immediately."
  7. A university lecturer ranking below a professor. UK
  8. Any device that reads something.
    — a card reader, a microfilm reader
  9. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
  10. An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
    — Appletons’ School Readers
  11. A literary anthology.
    — A good bedtime reader should entertain and delight, and that's what I find in Girard Kent's The Boy Harleqin ^([sic]) and Other Stories.
  12. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
  13. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
  14. Reading glasses. in-plural
  15. Marked playing cards used by cheaters. in-plural,slang
    — LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.
  16. A wallet or pocketbook. obsolete,slang
    — […] Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind; / R was a Reader, with flimsies well lined; […]
  17. At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.

词形变化

readers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
barcode reader beta reader blind reader book-reader card reader copyreader counterreader early reader easy reader e-book reader email reader e-reader exercise for the reader feedreader first reader hyperreader interreader intrareader lay reader lipreader microplate reader microreader mind reader mind-reader newsreader nonreader palm reader plate reader playreader prereader proof-reader proof reader readerbase readerboard reader copy readerdom readeress readerless readerly readership rip-and-reader scorereader screen reader sensitivity reader sight-reader stall-reader subreader wreader

词源

From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādāri, equivalent to read + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).
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