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Sketch
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- 1 Sketchy, shady, questionable. informal
"You call at 9 am on a Saturday, lucky I'm even awake. [...] Then expect me to pick you up at a gas station near a loony bin, that's sketch. I don't even want to ask what you're doing."
- 1 A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
"Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft."
- 2 preliminary drawing for later elaboration wordnet
- 3 A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- 4 short descriptive summary (of events) wordnet
- 5 A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
"I have to write a character sketch for a novel study."
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- 6 a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine wordnet
- 7 A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.; A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- 8 a brief literary description wordnet
- 9 A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.; A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- 10 An amusing person. informal
- 11 A lookout; vigilant watch for something. Ireland, slang
"to keep sketch"
- 12 A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature. UK
"A very capable journalist, he wrote the Parliamentary sketch for the Pall Mall and the Westminster Gazette for several years."
- 13 A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
- 1 To make a brief, basic drawing. ambitransitive
"I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil."
- 2 describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of wordnet
- 3 To describe briefly and with very few details. transitive
"He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened."
- 4 make a sketch of wordnet
Etymology
From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Compare scheme.
From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Compare scheme.
From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Compare scheme.
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