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sight reading

sight reading is the present participle and gerund of sight read.

Meaning of sight read

Verb

sight read (third-person singular simple present sight reads, present participle sight reading, simple past and past participle sight read)

  1. To perform a musical piece while reading it for the first time, without rehearsal.
    • I can sight read really simple music, but hard pieces need a lot of practice so I don't have to stop and figure out what I'm doing.
  2. (figuratively) To complete a video game level (particularly an autoscroller) while playing it for the first time, without practice.

Questions about sight reading

What is sight reading the present participle and gerund of?
Sight reading is the present participle and gerund of sight read.

Words near sight reading in the dictionary

  1. sight line
  2. sight radii
  3. sight radius
  4. sight radiuses
  5. sight read
  6. sight reading
  7. sight reads
  8. sight rhyme
  9. sight rhymes
  10. sight sang
  11. sight screen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sight reading (page history and authors); sight read (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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