reader


Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Related to reader: Reader's Digest

reader

An academic rank in the UK and certain Commonwealth (Australia, New Zealand) universities, which is hierarchically above senior lecturer and awarded to someone with a distinguished international reputation for original research and a track record for teaching excellence and service to the university. Readers are equivalent to professors in the US.

reader

Academic medicine An academician in the UK who is an expert in a specific area of medicine. See Lecturer Informatics A device that can access data from a machine-readable storage source–eg, a device that reads magnetic stripe cards. See OCR reader, Scanner.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
Identiv's smart card readers include a broad range of contact, contactless, and mobile smart card reader and terminal technology, digital identity and transaction platforms, and solutions that integrate physical and logical access control.
Identiv Strengthens Presence in India With Bureau of Indian Standards Certification of Desktop Smart Card Reader Solutions
(http://googlereader.blogspot.com/) Google said it is cancelling Google Reader because of a decline in usage and a desire to focus on other products.
Google Reader Dies: The End Of The Internet?
Now open the Reader archive you downloaded from Google with one of the tools mentioned in the previous point.
Life after Google Reader: Best alternatives, how to save your Reader data
Nonetheless, the complaints poured in from "the field": the readers were too hard; they were too different; they didn't have the worksheets that teachers expected; they didn't have the comprehension questions that teachers needed.
The triumph of look-say: dumbing-down reading instruction
While their plans may be less complicated than Buffett's, readers also like to control how and to whom they distribute their wealth.
What do you get from giving? Their charitable checks may be small compared to those of a billionaire, but U.S. CATHOLIC readers have faith that they will get some bang for their buck when they give to their charities of choice
Consultant Steve Sahlein almost started a brawl at a newsletter conference editors' session when he suggested that the job of an editor was to figure out what the readers of a newsletter wanted and give it to them rather than some "higher calling" determining what the readers "should know." I totally agree.
How to position editorial content for your readers
The important thing is that they somehow capture the essence of the article--and, of course, that they provide just enough detail to make the reader want to find out more.
Stand out from the crowd: create "entry points" throughout your article to draw the reader in
The best-selling series has struck a chord with readers around the world and across cultures.
Meanwhile, back at the crypt: new black vampire and horror tales are so sexy
However, readers need to be prepared, particularly non-economists, to slog on through some dense material.
Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne, (Eds.), Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success
Our journey to broadening our reader and advertiser base began with research, lots of research.
Updates from the media
Through her fiction, Butler exhorted readers to act rather than be acted upon, to cede power only to leaders wisely chosen, and to examine the origins of our ideas, so that we might not simply "think what we are told that we think."
The parables of Octavia Butler: a science-fiction writer's rich libertarian legacy
In chapter 1, De La Torre discusses the social process of reading, defines key terms and concepts for his study, and demonstrates how sometimes modern readers have a tendency to impose meanings on ancient biblical texts that are anachronistic.
Reading the Bible from the Margins

Medical browser ?
Full browser ?