measuring vs reading

reading vs measuring

measuring and reading both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
measuring	Yes	No	No	No
reading	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, reading is a hyponym of measuring; that is, reading is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than measuring:

measuring: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
reading: the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments

Other hyponyms of measuring include seismography, quantitative analysis, quantitative chemical analysis, actinometry, algometry, anemography, anemometry, angulation, anthropometry, arterial blood gases, audiometry, bathymetry, plumbing, calorimetry, cephalometry, densitometry, dosimetry, fetometry, foetometry, gravimetry, hydrometry, hypsography, hypsometry, mental measurement, micrometry, observation, pelvimetry, photometry, quantification, radioactive dating, meter reading, sampling, sounding, sound ranging, scaling, spirometry, surveying, telemetry, thermometry, thermogravimetry, tonometry, viscometry, viscosimetry, weigh-in, audience measurement, pycnometry.

measuring (noun)	reading (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
	the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
	a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
	a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
	written material intended to be read
	a particular interpretation or performance
	a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance

Difference between measuring and reading

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.