reader

n 1: a person who enjoys reading

2: someone who contracts to receive and pay for a certain

number of issues of a publication [syn: {subscriber}]

3: a person who can read; a literate person

4: a public lecturer at certain universities [syn: {lector}, {lecturer}]

5: one of a series of texts for students learning to read

header

1. The portion of a {packet}, preceding the actual data,

containing source and destination addresses, error checking

and other fields.

2. The part of an {electronic mail} message or {news} article

that precedes the body of a message and contains, among other

things, the sender's name and e-mail address and the date and

time the message was sent.