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Reading vs Watching - What's the difference?

reading | watching |

As verbs the difference between reading and watching

is that reading is present participle of lang=en while watching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between reading and watching

is that reading is the process of interpreting written language while watching is the act of one who watches.

As a proper noun Reading

is {{surname}.

reading

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia reading)
  • The process of interpreting written language.
  • The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
  • A value indicated by a measuring device.
    • a speedometer reading .
  • A meeting where written material is read aloud.
    • a poetry reading .
  • An interpretation.
    • a reading of the current situation .
  • One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.

    • Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms

    watching

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who watches.
  • * 1819 , John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)
    • What toils and pains; what cares and watchings ; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished?

    Derived terms

    * whale watching