The form 'sight-read' is used in the present tense, where it is pronounced /saɪt ri:d/ and is the past tense and past participle, pronounced /saɪt red/.
( sight-reads, sight-reading)
Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
Symphony musicians cannot necessarily sight-read.
VERB : V , also V n