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Definition of Sight-read

1. Verb. Perform music from a score without having seen the score before. "He is a brilliant pianist but he cannot sightread"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sight-read

Literary usage of Sight-read

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Graded Exercises in Arithmetic by Maria Jury, Jerome A. O'Connell, Edward B. Shallow (1911)
"At sight read the products : 40 30 60 80 50 70 20 90 42 32 52 72 92 82 22 ... At sight read the products : 45 55 85 75 35 95 65 25 66 86 96 56 46 26 76 ..."

2. Sheldons' Elementary Arithmetic: With Oral and Written Exercises by Theodore Preston Hill, N.Y. Sheldon & Company (New York (1886)
"State products at sight : Read answers: 1. Prom left to right ; 2. From right to left ; 3. From top to bottom; 4. From bottom to top; 5. ..."

3. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Education Association, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1889)
"We would begin to use the charts for supplementary and sight read - ing in our A and B classes, as soon as they have mastered the words in one chart fairly ..."

4. Sight-saving Classes in the Public Schools by Robert Benjamin Irwin (1920)
"Consequently many of those who enter the school for the blind with considerable sight read with their fingers cheerfully before they graduate as they have ..."

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