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SIGHT-READ
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perform music from a score without having seen the score before
Example:
He is a brilliant pianist but he cannot sightread
Synonyms:
sight-read; sightread
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "sight-read" is one way to...):
perform (give a performance (of something))
Domain category:
music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sight-read"):
sight-sing; sightsing (sing from a score without having seen it before)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
