sketch

IPA: skˈɛtʃ

A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
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.
A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
(informal) An amusing person.
(slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
(UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
(category theory) 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).

Examples of "sketch" in Sentences

She quickly sketched out a rough plan for the new building design
The artist spent hours working on the intricate details of the portrait sketch
He carried a sketchbook everywhere, always ready to capture a moment with a quick sketch
The detective examined the rough sketch of the suspect, trying to remember where he had seen the face before
The comedian's sketch about awkward first dates had the audience in stitches