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Reading Room

Definition: Reading Room

Reading Room

Noun

1. A room set aside for reading.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Crosswords: Reading Room

English words defined with "reading room": newsroomstudy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "reading room": AI koan, attenuated total reflectance, attenuated total reflexionHAMEDSome AI Koans. (references)

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Modern Usage: Reading Room

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tales from the Reading Room (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Reading Room

DomainTitle

Books

  • Making Music With Stringed Instruments (The Rosen Publishing Group's Reading Room Collection) (reference)

  • Reference Collections Shelved in the Reading Room and Acquisitions Department: Classification Schedule, Classified Listing by Call Number (And) Author (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Reading Room

Photos:
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Photo Album: Reading Room

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Library Main Reading Room, Royal Society of Medicine, London.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U. S. Army Hospital Number 30, Royat, France. : Red Cross waiting and reading room.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Army. Josiah Simpson General Hospital, Fort Monroe, Va. : Nurses Reading Room.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Main reading room of the National Library of Medicine photographed by Ralph Bredland.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reading Room

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ipl reading room

5

obscure reading room

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reading Room

Language Translations for "reading room"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sallë leximi, dhomë korrektimi. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حجرة القراءة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

читалня (study). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

閱覽室 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

èítárna. (various references)

   

French

  

salle de lecture, cabinet de lecture, cabinet. (various references)

   

German

  

Lesesaal. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναγνωστήριο (reading hall). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

olvasóterem (reading-room). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sala da leggere. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

閲覧室 (inspection room). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

えつら"しつ (inspection room). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadingray oomray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sala de leitura. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

salã de lecturã (news room). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

читальный зал (reading-room), корректорская (proofroom, proof-room). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

čitaonica. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sala de lectura. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

läsesal. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

darllenfa (lectern, reading desk). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Reading Room

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-m-n-o-o-r-r"

-3 letters: airdrome, amidogen, armigero, armoring, dragomen, dreaming, ideogram, margined, marooned, midrange, ondogram, orangier, ordainer, ordering, organdie, radiomen, rearming, renogram, reordain, rigadoon, rodeoing.

-4 letters: admirer, adoring, adorner, amidone, amorino, aneroid, angrier, armiger, armoire, armored, demoing, deraign, dooming, doorman, doormen, dragoon, drainer, earring, eroding, gadroon, germina, gnarred, goodman, goodmen, gormand, gradine, grained, grainer, grander, grinder, groaned, groaner, grodier, groined, groomed, groomer, ignored, ignorer, inarmed, ionomer, madrone, madrono, mangier, marengo, mariner, married, marring, mendigo, minored, mirador, moidore, moodier, moonier, moorage, moorier, mooring, moraine, morrion, negroid, oregano, randier, rangier, reading, readorn, reaming, rearing, redoing, regrind, regroom, remorid, roaming, roaring, romaine, roomier, rooming.

-5 letters: admire, adorer, aidmen, airmen, anomie, arider, arming, daemon, daimen, daimon, damner, danger, daring, darner, degami, denari, dinero, dinger, dogear, domain, domine, doming, domino, dormer, dormie, dormin, dragon, dromon, droner, drongo, earing, emodin, enamor, engird, engram, enigma, eringo, errand, erring, gained, gainer, gamier, gamine, gander, ganoid, garden, garner, garred, garron, german, girder, girned, goodie, gooier, goonie, gorier, grader, gradin, grimed, ignore, imaged, imager, indoor, inroad, ironed, ironer, maiden, maigre, manger, margin, marine, maroon, marred, marron, median, medina, merino, minder, mirage, moaned, moaner, modern, monger, mongoe, monied, mooing, mooned, moored, morgan, morgen, morion, nimrod, noodge, normed, oaring, onager, onagri, orange, ordain, orgone, origan, oroide, radome, ragmen, raider, rained, ramrod, random, ranged, ranger, raring, reagin, reding, regain, regard, regina, region, remain, remand, remind, remora, ringed, ringer, roadeo, roadie, roamed, roamer, roared, rodman, rodmen, romano, roomed, roomer, roomie.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-m-n-o-o-r-r"
 

+5 letters: gynandromorphies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reading Room


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 61 64 69 6E 67      52 6F 6F 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010010 01101111 01101111 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#82 &#111 &#111 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0061 0064 0069 006E 0067      0052 006F 006F 006D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52716770758073252818179

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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