Sight-read (original) (raw)

I. (verb)

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