| reader | | |
| n. (person) | 1. reader | a person who enjoys reading. |
| ~ bookworm | someone who spends a great deal of time reading. |
| ~ bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student | a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines. |
| n. (person) | 2. reader, subscriber | someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication. |
| ~ customer, client | someone who pays for goods or services. |
| n. (person) | 3. reader | a person who can read; a literate person. |
| ~ decipherer | a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text. |
| ~ literate, literate person | a person who can read and write. |
| ~ map-reader | a person who can read maps.; "he is a good map-reader" |
| ~ skimmer | a rapid superficial reader. |
| n. (person) | 4. reader, referee, reviewer | someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication. |
| ~ critic | anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something. |
| ~ scanner | someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables. |
| n. (person) | 5. proofreader, reader | someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections. |
| ~ pressman, printer | someone whose occupation is printing. |
| n. (person) | 6. lector, reader | someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| ~ clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend | a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church. |
| ~ holy order, order | (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy.; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order" |
| n. (person) | 7. lector, lecturer, reader | a public lecturer at certain universities. |
| ~ educator, pedagog, pedagogue | someone who educates young people. |
| n. (communication) | 8. reader | one of a series of texts for students learning to read. |
| ~ school text, schoolbook, text edition, textbook, text | a book prepared for use in schools or colleges.; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy" |
| ~ mcguffey eclectic readers | readers that combined lessons in reading with moralistic messages. |
| slash | | |
| n. (state) | 1. cut, gash, slash, slice | a wound made by cutting.; "he put a bandage over the cut" |
| ~ wound, lesion | an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin). |
| n. (object) | 2. slash | an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind). |
| ~ dry land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, earth, land | the solid part of the earth's surface.; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" |
| n. (communication) | 3. diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule | a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information. |
| ~ punctuation mark, punctuation | the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases. |
| n. (act) | 4. gash, slash | a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument. |
| ~ cutting, cut | the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge.; "his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels" |
| v. (contact) | 5. cut down, slash | cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (contact) | 6. flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip | beat severely with a whip or rod.; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" |
| ~ beat up, work over, beat | give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" |
| ~ flagellate, scourge | whip.; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" |
| ~ leather | whip with a leather strap. |
| ~ horsewhip | whip with a whip intended for horses. |
| ~ switch | flog with or as if with a flexible rod. |
| ~ cowhide | flog with a cowhide. |
| ~ cat | beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails. |
| ~ birch | whip with a birch twig. |
| v. (contact) | 7. gash, slash | cut open.; "she slashed her wrists" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (change) | 8. slash | cut drastically.; "Prices were slashed" |
| ~ cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down, cut, cut back, trim, bring down | cut down on; make a reduction in.; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
| v. (motion) | 9. convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss | move or stir about violently.; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" |
| ~ shake, agitate | move or cause to move back and forth.; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking" |
| ~ whip | thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash.; "The tall grass whipped in the wind" |
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