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sight-read in Music topic

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsight-readsight-read /ˈsaɪtriːd/ verb (past tense and past participle sight-read /-red/) [intransitive, transitive]  APMto play or sing written music when you look at it for the first time, without practising it firstsight-reader noun [countable]sight-reading noun [uncountable]→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
sight-readJust like Thomas, I could sight-read anything she threw at me.He could sight-read anything without the slightest difficulty, and he immediately understood what was going on.