Sketch

Definitions

1. A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
2. A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
3. A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
4. 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.
5. A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
6. A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
7. An amusing person.
   informal
8. A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
   Ireland, slang
9. A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
   UK
10. 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).

Equivalents

36 more languages

العربيةاسكتشالتّخطيطتفصيلرَسْم تَقْرِيبِيّرَسِيمَةمخطط+ 3 more

Azərbaycan dilieskiz

Bosanskicrtakrokimaketanacrtskečskicaкрокимакетанацртскица+ 7 more

Catalàcroquiscroquisaresborranyesbósesbossaresbossos+ 3 more

Češtinačrtanáčrtnačrtnoutskica+ 1 more

Cymraegbraslun

Danskskitsere

Ελληνικάσκίτσο

Esperantoskiziskizo

Suomihahmotellahahmotelmaharjoitelmaluonnosluonnospiirustusluonnostellapakinapellepiirrosraakilesketsiskitsivitsi+ 10 more

Galegoanteproxectodebuxardebuxo

עבריתמתווהתסכית

Hrvatskicrtakrokimaketanacrtskečskicaкрокимакетанацртскица+ 7 more

Magyarvázlatvázol

Bahasa Indonesiaataksketsa

Íslenskaskissa

Italianoabbozzarebozzacompendiaredelinearedescrizionemacchiettaresocontoscarabocchioschematizzareschizzareschizzosintetizzaresketchsunteggiare+ 11 more

日本語コントずあんスケッチ写生図案素描絵繢草本+ 6 more

ქართულიესკიზი

Қазақ тілінобай

한국어강요도안소묘스케치+ 1 more

Latinadescriptioinformatioschediasma

Latviešustudija

Te Reo Māorihuahua

Македонскинацртскица

Nederlandsschetsschetsen

Polskiabrysbazgraninabazgrołygryzmołynaszkicowaćschematszkicszkicowaćzałożeniezarys+ 7 more

Portuguêsesboçoesquissorascunharrascunhosketch+ 2 more

Românăschiță

Русскийнабрасыватьнабросатьнабросокобрисоватьочеркскетчфельетонэски́з+ 5 more

Српскиcrtakrokimaketanacrtskečskicaкрокимакетанацртскица+ 7 more

Svenskasketchskissskissa

ไทยงานร่าง

Türkçeçizimeskizskeç

Українськакреслення

Tiếng Việtlược đồphác hoạphác thảo

Examples

“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.”

“Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure⟳, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.”

“I have⟳ to write⟳ a character sketch⟳ for a novel study⟳.”

“to keep⟳ sketch⟳”

“A very capable journalist, he wrote the Parliamentary sketch⟳ for the Pall Mall and the Westminster Gazette for several years.”

“The Daily Telegraph sketch⟳ concentrated on the Bishop's attack and included rebutting remarks from Lord Longford, describing the attack as monumentally unfair because Mr. Cook⟳ could not reply⟳.”

“Frank had won a reputation while writing the Times sketch⟳ as one of the wittiest writers and talkers in England.”

CEFR level