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.
- But own that I am right: what you call a sketch from
- 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.
- A sketch is a sketch is a sketch … its what is on my mind at the moment and it is what it is.
- As the title sketch of a Mark Twain collection, its popularity was practically guaranteed in advance.
- It wasn't so very long ago that mere mention of the phrase "sketch show" was enough to usher a blitzkrieg of yawns from even the most dedicated
- The whole combination of curves which go to make up this sketch is a curious arrangement of words inscribed with the utmost care, in the smallest of characters.
- Verrazzano, reproduces one (No. XV, a) which he describes as a sketch of No.th America, from a map of the new world, in an edition of Ptolemy printed in Basle, 1530.
- Rodney Harrison, who knows everybody who _is_ anybody, has introduced me to some vaudeville-powers-that-be and I am encouraged to try my hand at what they call a sketch -- a one-act play.
- Yet he read, without complaint and without a fee from his wealthy protégé, not only the title sketch but twenty-seven other pieces, recommending eighteen for the collection—some eighty thousand words.30 Osgood hustled it all into a June printing.
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