Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for reading

The synonym for reading recorded in this bank is indication, in the sense "a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for reading

indicationnoun, in the sense "a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day reading is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineThinking and knowing

a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument

He could not believe the meter reading.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

indication

Same sentence, swapped: He could not believe the meter indication.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where reading stands in the sentence above.

version
recital
statistic

Where reading turns up in the game

reading is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play reading

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so reading reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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