How to pronounce "reading"

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Transcriber: tom carter Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar

You step into an elevator.

It starts going down, fast.

What would happen if you jumped right when it started going down?

Would the ceiling hit your head? Ouch!

Do you stay suspended in the air while the elevator plummets down?

Let's examine the elevator problem one step at a time.

First, consider a scale.

You know, the kind of scale you weigh yourself on.

When you step on a scale to weigh yourself,

there are two forces involved.

One, gravity pulls you down.

Two, the scale pushes you up.

What? You didn't know a scale could push?

Of course it can! If it didn't push up on you, you would go crashing through the floor.

This upward push is called the normal force and yes, it is normally there.

Since you're just standing there on the scale, you're not moving.

Therefore, you're not accelerating.

Newton's second law of motion -- net force equals mass times acceleration --

tells us that if the acceleration equals zero, the net force must equal zero.

Which means that the force of gravity pulling you down must be equal to the force of the scale pushing you up.

Now let's suppose you're standing on that scale in an elevator.

At first, the elevator is standing still,

so you and the scale are standing still.

The two forces on you are equal and opposite.

You can read how hard the scale is pushing by looking at it.

We call that your weight.

Then, the elevator starts falling down.

You and the scale are in the elevator, so you are falling down too,

faster and faster.

That means you are accelerating downward.

Now there is a net force in the same direction as the acceleration -- down.

Since gravity hasn't changed, that must mean the scale isn't pushing up as hard.

So the scale is reading a smaller number.

The faster the elevator accelerates, the less the scale pushes up.

What if you jumped? Would you stop falling?

Would the elevator hit your head?

Well, what's pulling the elevator down? Gravity.

Is gravity pulling on you? Of course.

So your relative position in the elevator will stay the same.

The ceiling will only hit you if you can jump up to the ceiling.

Now consider: what would happen if the elevator accelerated upward

and, even more frightening, if someone snuck in and cut the cable holding the elevator,

what would happen then?

Think about it.

Phonetic Breakdown of "reading"

Learn how to break down "reading" into its phonetic components. Understanding syllables and phonetics helps with pronunciation, spelling, and language learning.

read-ing

2 syllables

Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:

/ˈɹidiŋ/

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IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

R IY1 D IH0 NG

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Definition of "reading"

Pronunciation: /ˈɹidiŋ/

Verb

To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

Example: "Have you read this book?"

Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, scan, understand
To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.

Example: "All right, class, who wants to read next?"

Synonyms: read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak
To read work(s) written by (a named author).

Example: "At the moment I'm reading Milton."
To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from.

Example: "I can read his feelings in his face."
To consist of certain text.

Example: "On the door hung a sign that reads "No admittance"."
Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.

Example: "Arabic reads right to left."
To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
(usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

Example: "Do you read me?"

Synonyms: copy, hear, receive
To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal)

Example: "A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance."
(except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.

Example: "I am reading theology at university."

Synonyms: learn, study
To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).

Example: "to read a hard disk; to read a port; to read the keyboard"
To think, believe; to consider (that).
To advise; to counsel. See rede.
To tell; to declare; to recite.
To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

Example: "Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me."

Synonyms: clock

Antonyms: pass
To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.

Noun

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.

Example: "a speedometer reading."
An event at which written material is read aloud.

Example: "a poetry reading."
An interpretation.

Example: "a reading of the current situation."
Something to read; reading material.
The extent of what one has read.

Example: "He's a man of good reading."
(legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience: readings from the Bible

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