Usually means: Performing music from notation directly.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word sight read:

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  1. sight read: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sight-read: Merriam-Webster
  3. sight-read: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sight-read: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sight-read, sight-read: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sight-read: Vocabulary.com
  7. sight-read: Wordnik
  8. sight-read: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sight-read, sight read: Wiktionary
  10. sight-read: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sight-read: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sight-read, sight read: Dictionary.com
  13. sight-read: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Sight-read, Sight read: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. sight-read: Rhymezone
  16. sight-read: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sight-read: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. sight-read: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sight-read: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (sight read)

verb:  (music) To perform a musical piece while reading it for the first time, without rehearsal.
verb:  (figuratively, video games) To complete a video game level (particularly an autoscroller) while playing it for the first time, without practice.

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