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    SIGHTREAD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Perform music from a score without having seen the score beforeplay

    Example:

    He is a brilliant pianist but he cannot sightread

    Synonyms:

    sight-read; sightread

    Classified under:

    Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

    Hypernyms (to "sightread" 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 "sightread"):

    sight-sing; sightsing (sing from a score without having seen it before)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something

    Derivation:

    sightreader (a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music))

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