sketch

IPA: skˈɛtʃ

noun

  • 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).

verb

  • (transitive, intransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.
  • (transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.

adjective

  • (informal) Sketchy, shady, questionable.
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Examples of "sketch" in Sentences

  • Sketch the trees and the flowers.
  • That was the inspiration for the sketch.
  • He was a master of the epigram and sketches.
  • There is a sketched picture of the tennis player.
  • The cancellation logo is the sketch of the temple.
  • A sketch based on recency does not suffice in my eyes.
  • Also the figure looks the same as in the Munich sketch.
  • The cover of the album depicts a sketch of an unborn baby.
  • The order of sketches and songs featured in the revue is as follows.
  • Finally, the sketch of the second critique is presented in the introduction.

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